1y ago

Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data

blog.mozilla.org

See what’s changing in Firefox: Better insights, same privacy | The Mozilla Blog

I believe the settings to disable this on Librewolf are set by default...

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There is no such thing as anonymous telemetry.
- this guy gets it 🦤
Well this one is not false, :(

browser.search.serpEventTelemetry.enabled
Though this one is:

browser.search.serpEventTelemetryCategorization.enabled
So it seems not quite fully disabled... But telemetry is supposed to be off on librewolf...
- telemetry is disabled at build time
  but, just in case, that setting has been disabled and will be pushed in the next update
The data being collected is meant to enhance the appeal of Firefox as an ad platform for customers who might want to buy paid placements in Firefox Suggest. Perhaps they also consider it useful as a trial balloon to test the reaction it gets before heading further in that direction. The reaction it gets will not be good.
Looks like I may finally be trying out Librewolf.
- Welcome. 😃
- Looks like I may finally be trying out Librewolf.
  I like the out of the box experience of LibreWolf very much but it will not work well for all websites in my case. Luckily Firefox and LibreWolf can be installed and used at the same time without any issues.
@kixik #Firefox is signing its own death sentence. Unacceptable! 🤬🤬🤬 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/
- Those million dollar CEO pay increases aren't going to increase themselves...
- @chiefbongo @kixik Hi Chief I switched it off in settings...
  
  You might want to set both configs off. Not just one, although one seems off by default, but better make sure both get off in librewolf.cfg...
- Firefox need insight on its search ?
I would not mind if LibreWolf would be based on Firefox ESR (Like Tor and Mullvad browser are). The speed of the amount of new features added to Firefox is something I can do without.
- Yes. My point was that by using Firefox ESR as base the update cycle would be much slower which I would welcome.
So, how come firefox become spyware now ?
Firefox suggest is not worth the data that they're getting with this change. At least the collection can be disabled!

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