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        4 months ago

        Why is telemetry useful or why is it needed to use pi-hole to block telemetry?

        Telemetry is useful to know what features your customers use. While it’s great in theory to have product managers who dogfood and can act on everyone’s behalf, the reality is telemetry ensures your favorite feature keeps being maintained. It helps ensure the bugs you see get triaged and root caused.

        Unfortunately telemetry has grown to mean too many things for different people. Telemetry can refer to feature usage, bug tracking, advertising, behavior tracking.

        Is there evidence that even when you disable telemetry in Firefox it still reports telemetry? That seems like a strong claim for Firefox.

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          4 months ago

          It is way easier to start with a clean slate and to avoid Mozilla randomly turning on antifeatures. Stock Firefox as so much wrong with it. I don’t need to care on Librewolf as all of those have been stripped out and it is a clean experience