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My point is not the way you label gathering information from your users but rather that it is about implementing something Google proposed.

If the mechanism works, fine, but why should I use Firefox over Chromium then? Opt-out data collection is in violation to my core beliefs and what I believed to be Mozilla's principles.

Collecting data without asking the user about it is - to me - in violation to the very definition of privacy and calling some way to anonymise data (who guarantees that the cryptographic approach to this is not obsolete in a few years?) "differential privacy" is at the very least dishonest.




Existing telemetry in Firefox already works on an opt-out basis. This changes nothing.


Existing telemetry dosent collect browsing data




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