Disable-Firefox-Telemetry-and-Data-Collection

Possible perhaps --- but definitely not easy and thus highly unlikely on a broad scale. And this is by design. The most *easy* and sustainable way to achieve this is by using a fork of Firefox --- aka LibreWolf. https://github.com/K3V1991/Disable-Firefox-Telemetry-and-Dat...

Turns out this only turns off some of the telemetry. Turning it off completely is not entirely trivial. https://github.com/K3V1991/Disable-Firefox-Telemetry-and-Dat...

That's some of it but not all of it. If you uncheck those and proxy FF when it's starting you'll see the chatter. I have the doc page I'm talking about somewhere but I have no idea where it is. Fully disabling it is a long complex process involving about:config. * Found this: https://github.com/K3V1991/Disable-Firefox-Telemetry-and-Dat... I haven't compared their list to the one I've used before but it's along the same lines and explains the discrepancy between the config settings and Firefox's actual behavior.

Mozilla just doesn't come off as particularly credible. They talk a big game but then they waste no opportunity to fail to to live up to their values. Consider this: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ Even looking past how little it's actually saying, there are so many contradictions. > Individuals’ security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. > Individuals must have the ability to shape the internet and their own experiences on it. And yet... * It's damn near impossible to disable telemetry in Firefox. It's very clear they're fighting to prevent you from doing this, as evidenced by the fact that there are options that sort of half-disable telemetry, but not all of it. Fully disabling telemetry requires navigating a minefield of dark patterns and obscure configuration dialogues.