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Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data(blog.mozilla.org)

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

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kixik@lemmy.mlOP
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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…

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Katlah@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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telemetry is disabled at build time

but, just in case, that setting has been disabled and will be pushed in the next update

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ChiefBongo@mastodon.social
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@kixik #Firefox is signing its own death sentence. Unacceptable! 🤬🤬🤬 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/

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Jake@mastodon.social
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@chiefbongo @kixik Hi Chief I switched it off in settings…

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kixik@lemmy.mlOP
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You might want to set both configs off. Not just one, although one seems off by default, but better make sure both get off in librewolf.cfg…

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electricprism@lemmy.ml
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Those million dollar CEO pay increases aren’t going to increase themselves…

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johny_joe_1975@discuss.online
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Firefox need insight on its search ?

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TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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There is no such thing as anonymous telemetry.

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pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org
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this guy gets it 🦤

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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml
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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.

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

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

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Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de
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But what would be the benefit of that?

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THE_STORM_BLADE@lemmy.world
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Firefox suggest is not worth the data that they’re getting with this change. At least the collection can be disabled!

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