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Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default (www.quippd.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This data was then shared with advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Did you see that the privacy policy was updated to use Technical & Interaction data to "suggest relevant content"?

It's a package deal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The "suggest relevant content" refers to their sponsors like websites that show up on the front page. It's not evidence that they actually sold that data to other companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To get rewarded for having those sponsors, Mozilla needs to inform those sponsors that its users clicked the sponsors. How would they do that without sending data about how many users clicked the sponsors? Any monetization of an Internet feature requires some form of tracking to be implemented.

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