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I do think they should set up donations directly to Firefox development and support, but I disagree on the telemetry and Pocket. Telemetry is useful for improving the product and people like pocket.


Telemetry has been proven time and time again to be useless for adding improvements _users actually want_. If you want feedback, ask for it, don't secretly observe your users from a distance.


> Telemetry is useful for improving the product

Great, make it opt-in then. People have various legitimate reasons to decide for themselves whether they want to enable it or not. Keep in mind that under the GDPR it must be absolutely opt-in and the current implementation is in breach.

> people like pocket

Just like people like uBlock Origin (and I'd argue a lot more people like uBO than Pocket) and yet it isn't embedded in the browser for some reason (despite being permissively licensed and actually doing something to protect privacy).


> Telemetry is useful

And it should be off by default, not opt-out.




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