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by bkberry352 1553 days ago
What part of the telemetry is aggressive?
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https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-...

From the top of HN literally yesterday. They can match user downloads to multiple installs across systems now. The "solution" is to select "opt out of telemetry" in the settings, which you can't get to until after you've installed the browser and it's already happened.

Telemetry waits 30 minutes to start sending to give users time to opt out, see the note in the documentation: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...
Ah interesting. Thanks for the info. Not sure most people will know about that, but it's something!

Edit: It appears to be for the new-profile ping not the install pings.