I believe the settings to disable this on Librewolf are set by default…
There is no such thing as anonymous telemetry.
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…
telemetry is disabled at build time
but, just in case, that setting has been disabled and will be pushed in the next update
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.
@kixik #Firefox is signing its own death sentence. Unacceptable! 🤬🤬🤬 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/
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.
I might be a bit out of the loop but I assumed the LibreWolf team already removes questionable code when building their fork?
Yes. My point was that by using Firefox ESR as base the update cycle would be much slower which I would welcome.