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How to disable Firefox Telemetry and Data Collection

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2023-06-28 · latest 2025-08-02

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  1. 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.…
    comment by jqpabc123 · 2025-08-02 · in I tried Servo
  2. 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...
    comment by marginalia_nu · 2024-01-04 · in Block cookie banners on Firefox
  3. 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…
    comment by user3939382 · 2023-10-31 · in Firefox got faster for real users in 2023
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    Disable Firefox Telemetry Settings
    story by funerr · 2023-10-02 · 4 comments
  5. 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…
    comment by marginalia_nu · 2023-06-28 · in Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor