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by j_s 3247 days ago
Firefox tracks users with Google Analytics in the add-on settings | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753546

  "Someone submitted a PR to Mozilla to fix this, and the Mozilla devs closed it"
Impossible to opt-out until about 2 weeks ago.
1 comments
vetinari 3247 days ago
Come on, that was a bug in the new preferences pages.

The telemetry I was talking about is exactly the one, where you get a bar at the bottom during first launch. Try it, you will see it.

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j_s 3247 days ago
Perhaps this instance was an honest mistake.

The specifics of a custom deal with Google and the circling of the wagons (specifically opinions expressed by multiple Mozilla employees in an official capacity) prior to reversing course does not strengthen that case.

> If you say no, it won't send anything.

This simply wasn't true; I am glad that the implementation was fixed.

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