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Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by moonshinefe on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:39PM (#30725164)
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-...

From the top of HN literally yesterday. They can match user downloads to multiple installs across systems now. The "solution" is to select "opt out of telemetry" in the settings, which you can't get to until after you've installed the browser and it's already happened.

Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by bkberry352 on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:15PM (#30725626)
Telemetry waits 30 minutes to start sending to give users time to opt out, see the note in the documentation: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...
Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by moonshinefe on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:33PM (#30725831)
Ah interesting. Thanks for the info. Not sure most people will know about that, but it's something!

Edit: It appears to be for the new-profile ping not the install pings.

Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by jwilk on Friday March 18, 2022 @05:48PM (#30727976)