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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by franga2000 on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:13AM (#29390348)
The term "telemetry" can mean anything from automatic crash reports to click tracking to transmitting your browsing history along with your social security number. Google is far closer to the end of that spectrum, Mozilla is somewhere in the lower first half.

As for ads - where? I haven't seen any and I've been using Firefox on multiple platforms for many years.

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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by krageon on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:22AM (#29390683)
Both ends of the telemetry spectrum are evil, explicitly because the term means nothing except "data about you".
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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by franga2000 on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:31PM (#29398810)
That's...not what telemetry means...

Even if it did, we're again back at the point of "X is a spectrum". "evil" is a spectrum which, according to you, includes anonymous crash reports and then goes on to include serial killers and war criminals. Even then, anonymised usage data used to guide development is far less evil than collecting highly personal and identifying data and using it for targeted psychological manipulation to get you to buy things.

I get it, Mozilla isn't the poster child FLOSS org that we'd like it to be, but it's still orders of magnitude better than the competition.

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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by mkl on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:36AM (#29390774)
> the term means nothing except "data about you".

No, crash reports are primarily data about the program, with very little if anything about you.

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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google by krageon on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @06:08AM (#29402657)
Very few applications take pains to make sure no personal information is submitted in crash dumps. Generally it is just a bald memory dump that you're supposed to ship out - definitely not a good idea if you care about your privacy.
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