TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This data was then shared with advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.
…in regards to the adverts on the New Tab page. Go turn off all that junk for the suggested content on a new tab.
How does Librewolf improve on this?
I really, really want to use Librewolf. I’m on WaterFox until they have a binary build available that doesn’t fail MacOS security checks on launch.
You can turn off telemetry, but that doesn’t save Mozilla from ire for pulling this, it’s still a shitty move regardless, it’s an answer to the problem, but it doesn’t justify the problem’s existence or exempt Mozilla from ridicule for it, it’s still a problem and it’s still a crappy move for someone to pull.
I’ve been saying this for years. And getting shit on for it. It was in the Privacy Policy the whole time.
Wish I had seen your comments previously!
