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Re:​Mozilla quietly deploys built-in Firebox advertising by teaneedz on Friday September 11, 2015 @10:49AM (#10203955)
If tiles are disabled / opted-out does Firefox cease sending this data to the mothership?

I have to admit that as a long time Firefox user, Mozilla's recent product decisions are driving me slowly away.

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Re:​Mozilla quietly deploys built-in Firebox advertising by zb3 on Friday September 11, 2015 @10:23AM (#10203806)
As for fetching them, that's just a matter of blocking "tiles.services.mozilla.com".

However, I couldn't really understand what data is being sent to Mozilla in general use cases.

Does FF send data about normal browsing usage or just data about interaction with those suggested tiles?

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Re:​Mozilla quietly deploys built-in Firebox advertising by vorian on Friday September 11, 2015 @10:44AM (#10203928)
From the article

'That said, Firefox does send your browser history to Mozilla. '

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Re:​Mozilla quietly deploys built-in Firebox advertising by bzbarsky on Saturday September 12, 2015 @12:28AM (#10207218)
The article doesn't seem to contain this text anymore. Which is good, since it was false.
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