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See what’s changing in Firefox: Better insights, same privacy (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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To disable it in about:config

browser.search.serpEventTelemetry.enabled  =  false	
browser.search.serpEventTelemetryCategorization.enabled  =  false

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[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's the ideal solution morally-wise, but it still samples out a ton of users precisely because people are used to the idea of telemetry = bad

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

did-someone

I wonder why users would have such a bias, other than their experience over the last 25 years.
I’m a developer. I side with the users on this.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

It’s the ideal solution morally-wise, but it still samples out a ton of users precisely because people are used to the idea of telemetry = bad

And that's a good thing. Because that is the decision by the user. The freedom of choosing in opt in fashion is much more important than collecting some individual data for a specific use case of a specific company. Opt in is not just ideal solution morally-wise, its the best solution we have in general and every company should strife this solution. Plus the data should be presented before sending, so there is no ambiguity. Steam, a closed source program, does that in the best possible way.