[dependenttypes]

How ironic. Firefox is the browser that calls home the most on the first run https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658588961766604...

They also disabled the ability for extensions to work on mozilla pages and things like about:addons by default, where mozilla uses google analytics.

They add new tracking crap on the browser in every release, so you are at a loss what to disable first in about:config as the online guides tend to get outdated easily.

> that's good for trolls and surveillance organizations and violent groups

Only "surveillance organizations" is relevant to privacy. The others make me think of centralisation and censorship.

The only real way to browse privately is to use a browser with javascript disabled and only a subset of css enabled over tor/isp. (but then you have to deal with cloudflare and broken sites)

[jamienicol]

What is the relevance of "number of calls home on first run"? Surely the contents of said calls, and over an extended time period, is a much more important measurement?

[dependenttypes]

I think that the number of calls home on first run is more important because you don't get an option to disable them.