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by yjftsjthsd-h 579 days ago
> Telemetry is how they figure out

> popular or blocked addons,

They can tell what's popular by what's downloaded from addons.mozilla.org, they don't need telemetry for that. I'm not sure how to read "blocked", but the menu item to report an extension is immediately next to the item to remove it, so I also don't think you need anything more for that.

> failing pages,

I certainly hope they're not sending Mozilla a list of pages I'm visiting, failed or otherwise.

> browser crashes,

Does a restart not still pop up a dialog to ask the user if they want to report the crash? You don't need "telemetry" for that.

> etc.

Etc.