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Disable telemetry and data collection in mozilla Firefox Quantum (2018)
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Re: Disable telemetry and data collection in mozilla Firefox Quantum (2018)
#12Is there anything these preferences disable that isn't disabled by unchecking the three boxes (telemetry, experiments, crash reports) in the regular Privacy & Security tab of the Firefox preferences?
FF has a default link that it checks for capture portals on wifi networks. I think that it must be turned on all the time, though something in the about: pages might turn it off.
Right, captivedetect.canonicalURL: http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt
Tho that isn't mentioned in the article, and I'd be surprised if mozilla collects any data there (other than something like a hit count).
Of course, there are also the update checks, both for Firefox itself and extensions (both not mentioned in the article either, and probably a bad idea to disable this functionality unless some external source like a package manager does the updating for you).
Re: Disable telemetry and data collection in mozilla Firefox Quantum (2018)
#13Was this fixed given that the story is from 2018?
Re: Disable telemetry and data collection in mozilla Firefox Quantum (2018)
#14Mozilla people - this is a serious issue. If you want to champion privacy, you NEED to have a big red button that says "nothing gets sent out" and you NEED to have an end-to-end test to make sure Firefox respects it.
Agreed. This is probably one of the fastest way to loose users in 2020.
agree
Re: Disable telemetry and data collection in mozilla Firefox Quantum (2018)
#15Mozilla people - this is a serious issue. If you want to champion privacy, you NEED to have a big red button that says "nothing gets sent out" and you NEED to have an end-to-end test to make sure Firefox respects it.
Agreed. This is probably one of the fastest way to loose users in 2020.
Article is from January 2018.
Re: Disable telemetry and data collection in mozilla Firefox Quantum (2018)
#16Firefox is lame in this respect.
I've gone through countless iterations trying to turn stuff off, but it still makes all kinds of requests.
I had to block it with Little Snitch.
On the other hand, plenty of other "privacy focused" companies are worse (apple is horrendous).
Re: Disable telemetry and data collection in mozilla Firefox Quantum (2018)
#17> even after you disable these options, Firefox still collects and sends data to servers I am surprised, for a product that claims to be privacy focused to behave in this way. I am a Firefox user and have not disabled telemetry since I think it can help Firefox and I trust them no to do anything wrong with it. But I would have expected that unchecking the telemetry option would actually disable telemetry.
I know there are a lot of people hanging around here looking for a business idea or a side project with some potential, so here's one idea: Create a customized version of Firefox that: - has support for removing the top bar when tst or something similar is installed. It should probably be possible to disable/reneable it using a menu option and an optional toolbar button. - actually disables all telemetry when you try…
Although I haven't used them - there are several other firefox forks like waterfox or the tor browser that support privacy/anonymity
waterfox claims:
* Telemetry is removed
* Data collection is removed
tor goes much further
Re: Disable telemetry and data collection in mozilla Firefox Quantum (2018)
#18Was this fixed given that the story is from 2018?
I don't think the claim that Firefox sends telemetry even after disabling it in the preferences has ever been true. It will still contact Mozilla servers for other reasons, like retrieving lists of malicious add-ons or checking for updates, but it won't send telemetry.
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