A related anecdote: Firefox disabled ALSA support because their telemetry showed nobody was using it, but it turned out that the kind of people who use ALSA are also the kind of people who disable as much telemetry as possible:
https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/data-science-is...
Disabling telemetry is like refusing to register to vote: you minimise the chance of people doing bad things to you, but you also minimise the chance of people doing good things for you. Maybe that trade-off is worth it for you, maybe it isn't, but don't complain that the trade-off exists and don't get annoyed that other people choose differently.
> 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.
Needs (2018) in the title.
Is 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?
To see what the telemetry actually entails, go to about:telemetry. It looks like enough for fingerprinting, but doesn't seem to include websites visited. A bit more info here: https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-now-shows-what-telemet...
Alright, this is a click bait, misleading title, the title should be:
"How to disable all telemetry and data collection in mozilla Firefox Quantum"
Firefox 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).
Does anyone know if this is still an issue in 2020?
Was this fixed given that the story is from 2018?
Any idea why option to edit 'toolkit.telemetry.enabled' is disabled?
If I let someone into my space and they carry out a bunch of shit, they,re not coming back in ...
Article is from 2018 (thanks Fnoord)!
Ooh, now do Chrome!
no wonder world governments are going totalitarian. people are not willing to fight for their freedoms and privacy even online when all you need to do is few clicks. ffs. also ff is paid for by gulag anyway so there is no difference if your data is collected directly or via 3rd party(mozilla).
Mozilla 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.