Mozilla Has Likely Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default
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TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This included data about advertising within Firefox’s New Tab page, along with a lot of other technical information about the installation of Firefox. The Firefox preferences UI makes no mention of usage of this technical data for advertising purposes. Mozilla has also recently shared that they share data with their advertising partners “on a de-identified or aggregated basis”. Mozilla has given no indication that this is a new occurrence.

TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This data was then shared with advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.

  • @[email protected]English
    19•2 months ago

    Well shit. I left telemetry on because I liked Firefox and didn’t mind helping the developers with their free software. I very much mind helping marketers. I’m really curious what exactly is being shared.
    But I’ve already moved on to Waterfox and Librewolf on everything but my phone.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•2 months ago

      Same. If you don’t enable telemetry, how are they supposed to know if a feature is popular?

      Meanwhile, they’re selling the data to fucking ad networks. Scum.