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by morsch 2255 days ago
I opted out of the Firefox/Android data collection setting. Then I was recently updated to the new Firefox Beta: https://snipboard.io/139WEH.jpg Privacy not included.
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Looks like you were one of the unlucky 10%: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/mobile/android/mma.h...

It seems they've been using Leanplum for some time; I'm surprised I hadn't heard anything about it. It looks like they're not using it for advertising purposes, at least.

I'm surprised they wouldn't at least restrict it to only users who had enabled usage data (i.e., not enable it for users who had clearly already expressed a preference for privacy).

I'm also surprised they didn't do this in-house. Sending data to a third party, no matter how trustworthy that party seems, is not good a good look for a product that is advertised as privacy preserving.

Lovely. Thanks.