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Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 by remram on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:49AM (#28018106)
I am too, but I have telemetry disabled since their stunt with the Mr Robot extension they installed remotely for everyone [1]. I also run uBlock on both desktop and mobile. I am one of the 50M users counted as lost?

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/mozilla-back...

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Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 by ohgodplsno on Saturday July 31, 2021 @11:03AM (#28018717)
>Mr Robot extension they installed remotely for everyone

Absolute bullshit. The Looking Glass extensions was installed through their SHIELD experiments program, only for people who had enabled it, and to a very small proportion of those, too. Additionally, it did not capture any data, as creepy as it was.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-l...

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Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 by Crespyl on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:11PM (#28019893)
It is a ridiculous breach of trust to abuse an engineering test platform to push advertising software directly onto a users computer without consent.
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Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 by remram on Saturday July 31, 2021 @04:16PM (#28021224)
It's certainly enough to turn off those optional settings, don't you think? But fair enough, I didn't phrase this right.

I'm wondering how they count users, and whether installations with telemetry disabled are counted at all.

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Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 by eitland on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:12PM (#28020388)
I got it and I absolutely never willingly signed up for it and I am (and was at that time too) a very competent user.
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