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Re:Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises... by rustc on Sunday March 02, 2025 @08:52AM (#43230479)
> You can see user collected data publicly

Where? I thought they were sharing this data with partners, not making it publicly available. See https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...:

> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our Privacy Notice.

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Re:Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises... by braiamp on Sunday March 02, 2025 @09:10AM (#43230646)
Partners include people like you and me that work with them on specific experiments. Depending on the kind of data, for example Normandy [1] data, Nimbus [2] data are used on those experiments and help to develop and improve the product. Results of those specifically are usually private [3], but other telemetry are public [4] which also collects what could be considered PII.

[1]: https://mozilla.github.io/normandy/

[2]: https://experimenter.info/faq/general-faq

[3]: https://experimenter.info/results-availability

[4]: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware

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Re:Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises... by rustc on Sunday March 02, 2025 @09:16AM (#43230710)
That might be part of the data they share, but they also clearly said in the blog post I linked above that they also share some data with their ad partners.
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