In the world full surveillance you think all telemetry is wrong.
There were better days and there are better worlds. In Arch Linux and Debian you have to find out and install telemetry by yourself [1], [2]. It provides neat insides to the community.
Like in Arch Linux Firefox is on the rise [3], Chromium on the fall [4] and Google Chrome while small is constant [5]. While Debian community strongly prefers Firefox ESR [6] over Firefox [7] and Chromium [8].
Yes, statistics skewed to those who participate in community [9], but same could be said about forums, wiki, chatrooms, mailing lists. That's fine - community care most about those who help community. Anonymized highly technical telemetry is easiest way. I opt in. Bonus point - Firefox Public Data Report [10].
There were better days and there are better worlds. In Arch Linux and Debian you have to find out and install telemetry by yourself [1], [2]. It provides neat insides to the community.
Like in Arch Linux Firefox is on the rise [3], Chromium on the fall [4] and Google Chrome while small is constant [5]. While Debian community strongly prefers Firefox ESR [6] over Firefox [7] and Chromium [8].
Yes, statistics skewed to those who participate in community [9], but same could be said about forums, wiki, chatrooms, mailing lists. That's fine - community care most about those who help community. Anonymized highly technical telemetry is easiest way. I opt in. Bonus point - Firefox Public Data Report [10].
[1] Arch Linux pkgstats (2008) https://popcon.debian.org/
[2] Debian Popularity Contest (2004) https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/
[3] https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages/firefox
[4] https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages/chromium
[5] https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages/google-chrome
[6] https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=firefox-esr
[7] https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=firefox
[8] https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=chromium
[9] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getting_Involved
[10] https://data.firefox.com/