[niyaven]

> even after you disable these options, Firefox still collects and sends data to servers

I am surprised, for a product that claims to be privacy focused to behave in this way. I am a Firefox user and have not disabled telemetry since I think it can help Firefox and I trust them no to do anything wrong with it. But I would have expected that unchecking the telemetry option would actually disable telemetry.

[eitland]

I know there are a lot of people hanging around here looking for a business idea or a side project with some potential, so here's one idea:

Create a customized version of Firefox that:

- has support for removing the top bar when tst or something similar is installed. It should probably be possible to disable/reneable it using a menu option and an optional toolbar button.

- actually disables all telemetry when you try to disable telemetry

- optional but recommended: a "getting started wizard" where you select your preferred search engine, if you want to install TST or Sidebery, and if you want to set memory consumption to sane defaults.

- otherwise works exactly like Firefox

- Charge $50 a year, possibly more.

I'd probably sign up immediately.

Questions:

Q: what if Mozilla finally gets it and implements this?

A: Fine, just go to the next thing they broke.

[jamienicol]

Seems like someone would earn exactly $50 from doing that

[eitland]

I can't be the only one to miss old Firefox features and UX without wanting to leave behind all improvements we've seen the last few years on security, support for new standards and also performance.

[m463]

Although I haven't used them - there are several other firefox forks like waterfox or the tor browser that support privacy/anonymity

waterfox claims:

* Telemetry is removed

* Data collection is removed

tor goes much further

[eitland]

I've tried those a couple of years ago, but aren't they still based on older versions of Firefox?

My idea here was taking the latest version of Firefox and just fix the worst problems. I'd still pay for it.