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Youssuff Quips

People who had willingly opted into sharing telemetry data by running Nightly or Beta builds of #Firefox to help Mozilla make a better product – those are the people who are blindsided by this change. We chose to opt in to share data with Mozilla, and the way that the data was used changed after we made our decision – and it wasn’t really clear that it was the case.

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Youssuff Quips

I looked on #reddit and the general tech press to see if the community had understood what is obvious today – enabling this setting by default allowed #Mozilla to further monetize the new tab page. I found afnan-khan’s sad submission of Mozilla’s privacy notice post. 13 net upvotes, 0 comments.

A massively consequential change with regards to data sharing in advertising, and the #Firefox community had nothing to say about it.

reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/

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Youssuff Quips

It’s finally making sense. #Mozilla reduced granularity into the options for data collection in #Firefox, enabled additional data collection by default, and gave itself the ability to use this new data for advertising purposes. Users would have to opt out of this data collection for it not to be used for advertising purposes (a purpose that Mozilla in this iteration is not forthright about).

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Youssuff Quips

Take a look at the #Firefox Preferences UI that Mozilla is telling us to toggle if we don’t want our data being processed for ads. I don’t see anything here says that this setting is about sharing data with advertisers. I have to go to the Privacy Notice to understand that. That doesn’t feel very upfront to me.

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Youssuff Quips

Ever since this setting has existed, Mozilla contributors and employees have told people to enable it, in order to ensure that Mozilla developers have insight into how people use Firefox, to help make #Firefox better. While this post will prove my (naive) impression wrong, I had never seen anyone mention that this setting shared data with advertisers.

And yet, that is what Mozilla is telling us.

techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/mozi

TechCrunch · Mozilla responds to backlash over new terms, saying it's not using people's data for AI | TechCrunchMozilla has responded to user backlash over the Firefox web browser's new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for using overly broad language that
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Youssuff Quips

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. quippd.com/writing/2025/03/12/

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Youssuff Quips · Mozilla Has Likely Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by DefaultTL;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.
Nick @ The Linux Experiment

As promised, here is an interview with @ryanleesipes from #Thunderbird, on the whole #Mozilla and #Firefox terms of use situation.

We talk about why this had to happen, how Thunderbird will handle their own Terms of Use, what's happening at Mozilla, and what's changing.

youtube.com/watch?v=ctg5QzSt5tg

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Mink Stole

Replaced #Firefox with #LibreWolf wooo!
Thing is, I had several other privacy focused add-ons/extensions like #PrivacyBadger #PrivacyPossum, but when I checked the recommended extensions for LibreWolf, it says to only use uBlock origin and a password manager, it doesn't mention these other add-ons. So, if my suspicion is correct, they are not necessary because LibreWolf already does the same things as these extensions out of the box?
Would be great to have a more explicit explanation from @librewolf docs :heart_cyber:

Rusty Corgi

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. :blobfoxmeltsob:​

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... :corgi_wtf1:​ I hate it here.

#Mozilla#Firefox#Google
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