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Re:Privacy online just got easier with today’s Firefox release by mdaniel on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:33PM (#33250051)
I realized while reading your comment they actually do have the perfect button for "I wish to disable browser telemetry": the DNT checkbox

Its whole premise is "I, as a user of this browser, do not want to participate in tracking activities." I don't see why mozilla should be exempt from that intention. I'd be some top shelf :chefs_kiss: if mozilla.org honored the DNT but the browser itself didn't

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Re:Privacy online just got easier with today’s Firefox release by altairprime on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:22PM (#33250871)
The T in DNT stands for Do Not Track, not Do Not Telemetry.

Telemetry and Tracking are not mutually exclusive; both can be implemented by software developers.

Telemetry is unidentified software usage statistics from a random IP address somewhere on the Internet, generally without caring about whose telemetry it is.

Tracking is an attempt to identify who is operating the software, in order to associate that software's activity with specific human beings in a database.

DNT is Do Not Track, which means "do not attempt to identify me" — but I assume that Firefox telemetry typically isn't attempting to identify you in the first place, so making a statement about tracking with the DNT checkbox would not affect telemetry decisions.

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