As a developer, I'll also say that the internal process for adding any additional collection is pretty heavyweight. We'd really rather you not lock in insecure versions until you've worked on a browser, you won't believe how active and pervasive the attacks are. Mozilla is very open about what is collected, and all of it can be turned off. But you're raising legitimate concerns, so I have no reason to prevent your post from being seen.

Don't speak for them etc.) I didn't consider downvoting, but since you mentioned it below it would kind of make sense, since much of what you say here is objectively false. I expect Mozilla will go defunct soon, it's now been on its self-destruct path for too long for it to be rescued. People who've used Firefox in the past have done so because they want an alterative - not more of the same. There's no way Mozilla would know that data unless Firefox's surveillance of its users had been all-pervasive.)īy going the way of the rest of the industry, Mozilla is shooting itself in the foot. (BTW, we know the depth of this surveillance just by looking at Mozilla's comments on v94's webpage. Mozilla has a damned hide to automate updates, not to mention gathering data about users' habits without telling them what's been gathered, and also not allowing users to turn off that collection if they wished. This worked, as updates wouldn't even work when clicking 'updates' in the menu. It was the first thing I'd nuke before allowing my PC to reconnect to the internet, the second was to nuke every talk-home-Mozilla link that about:config would allow to either be changed or deleted. I don't know about this version but at least one could uninstall the maintenance service.

Do i need to keep old firefox data