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Re:Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android by mintplant on Saturday August 19, 2017 @04:43AM (#15052385)
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the Google SDK is only used to record whether the app was installed by way of an ad campaign Mozilla is running on Google. All other telemetry data goes directly to Mozilla servers, and contains things like "feature X was used"—not browsing data.

Since it's all free software, you can check what events are actually sent here: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/blob/master/...

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Re:Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android by st3fan on Saturday August 19, 2017 @08:06AM (#15052936)
That is not actually what I said. The only component we use for campaign tracking is Adjust which has nothing to do with google services. Adjust has gone through a very tough vetting process.
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Re:Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android by mintplant on Saturday August 19, 2017 @01:36PM (#15054564)
Better to quote you directly:

> - Adjust SDK: an install attribution tool (aka install referrer tracking). This is only used to determine whether the app was installed as the result of a specific (google-hosted) ad campaign. Adjust depends on play-services-analytics. ( https://www.adjust.com/glossary/install-referrer/ ).

play-services-analytics is what I meant by "the Google SDK" in question; sorry if that was unclear!

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