There are many reasons. One of the reasons is this sneaky one.
Then there’s more than enough telemetry Mozilla makes use of in Firefox you need to disable in about:config where most users don’t even look. Lookup the following options:
browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport
datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled
datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled
toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base
toolkit.coverage.opt-out
toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out
Everytime you start Firefox it sends your location to Mozilla. Lookup these options:
Region.current
Region.home
browser.region.update.enabled
browser.region.network.url
These are just a few things Mozilla does and pretty much nobody talks about because they are considered trustworthy. But let’s be real here: Trust is good, control is better. That’s why I made some research about Mozilla and found out about the above things.
There are many reasons. One of the reasons is this sneaky one.
Then there’s more than enough telemetry Mozilla makes use of in Firefox you need to disable in about:config where most users don’t even look. Lookup the following options:
Everytime you start Firefox it sends your location to Mozilla. Lookup these options:
These are just a few things Mozilla does and pretty much nobody talks about because they are considered trustworthy. But let’s be real here: Trust is good, control is better. That’s why I made some research about Mozilla and found out about the above things.