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Re:Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android by nsomaru on Saturday August 19, 2017 @06:46AM (#15052698)
I'm okay with telemetry, if it makes Firefox better. It's a way of 'paying' for Firefox. Your trust has to go somewhere eventually, and Mozilla doesn't seem like a bad option.

Anonymised data would make me happier though :)

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Re:Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android by Manishearth on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:49AM (#15053666)
IIRC it is pretty anonymized already. I don't recall the details.

Also, Mozilla's privacy policy explains what Mozilla can do with the data. Generally it's not a matter of trusting the company as much as it is believing they'll follow their own privacy policy, which IMO is a reasonable assumption for most companies (including Facebook and Google, which use your data but do tell you about it)

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