See what’s changing in Firefox: Better insights, same privacy | The Mozilla Blog
blog.mozilla.org
Innovation and privacy go hand in hand here at Mozilla. To continue developing features and products that resonate with our users, we’re adopting a new a

I believe the settings to disable this on Librewolf are set by default…

  • kixik@lemmy.mlOP
    21·
    6 months ago

    Well this one is not false, :(

    browser.search.serpEventTelemetry.enabled

    Though this one is:

    browser.search.serpEventTelemetryCategorization.enabled

    So it seems not quite fully disabled… But telemetry is supposed to be off on librewolf…

  • kbal@fedia.io
    16·
    6 months ago

    The data being collected is meant to enhance the appeal of Firefox as an ad platform for customers who might want to buy paid placements in Firefox Suggest. Perhaps they also consider it useful as a trial balloon to test the reaction it gets before heading further in that direction. The reaction it gets will not be good.

    Looks like I may finally be trying out Librewolf.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Looks like I may finally be trying out Librewolf.

      I like the out of the box experience of LibreWolf very much but it will not work well for all websites in my case. Luckily Firefox and LibreWolf can be installed and used at the same time without any issues.

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
    61·
    6 months ago

    I would not mind if LibreWolf would be based on Firefox ESR (Like Tor and Mullvad browser are). The speed of the amount of new features added to Firefox is something I can do without.

    • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      I might be a bit out of the loop but I assumed the LibreWolf team already removes questionable code when building their fork?

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Yes. My point was that by using Firefox ESR as base the update cycle would be much slower which I would welcome.

          • kbal@fedia.io
            2·
            6 months ago

            I find Firefox ESR much more relaxing to use than the version that springs new features and bugs on you randomly throughout the year.

          • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            Firefox ESR is like LTS. It would mean less work for LibreWolf maintainers and less upgrades for the users.