Firefox is following you. But it is fixable!

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Firefox is following you. But it is fixable!

Telemetry in Firefox

What is telemetry in Firefox?

Telemetry - This is a collection of technical data of the browser. As a rule, this is anonymized information. The leak of this data is not something catastrophic. You can live with it, and at the moment there are no problems. But the world is changing, and if you read an article about total surveillance on the network, you will understand that you need to protect your privacy and confidentiality, and you need to do this in all possible ways.

In addition, disabling Firefox telemetry will have a good effect on browser speed. And this applies not only to the “paranoid” like me, but also to “healthy” people.

So, let's move on from words to deeds.

Disabling Firefox Data Collection

1. Go to the settings menu by clicking on the three small lines in the upper right corner of the browser.
2. Then select “Options” -> “Privacy and Protection”.
3. Go down and in the "Collect and use Firefox data" field, uncheck the boxes "Allow Firefox to send technical data ..." and Allow Firefox to send messages ... ".

Disabling Firefox Telemetry
Disabling telemetry requires a bit more work, but can be completed in five minutes.

1. In the address bar, enter “about: config”.
2. You will see a “Be careful ...” notification. There will be no type of guarantees (Mozilla has guarantees ). Click “I accept the risk”

3. To find the necessary settings, enter the word "telemetry" in the search bar. Of all the results found, only the following should be changed:

 browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry 
 browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry 
 browser.ping-center.telemetry 
 toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled 
 toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled 
 toolkit.telemetry.enabled 
 toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled 
 toolkit.telemetry.hybridContent.enabled 
 toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled 
 toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRun 
 toolkit.telemetry.server 
 toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled 
 toolkit.telemetry.unified 
 toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled

4. select the switch item (the same can be done by double left clicking) by changing the value to false (disabled). Then click “toolkit.telemetry.server” and delete all values. For example: " https://incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org »

Disabling Firefox Experiments
As an added measure, you can disable Firefox experiments. This feature may install add-ons without your knowledge.

A couple of weeks ago, this feature was used by developers. Browser users have discovered the presence of some kind of left looking extension Glass 1.0.5 with the cryptic description "My reality is different from yours."

The sudden appearance of an unknown addon managed to cause a slight commotion - until it turned out that this was a promotion for the series about hackers “Mr. Robot” and the expansion was essentially harmless. I don’t like such jokes and I decided to turn off Experiments. It is done like this:

1. A search for the phrase “experiments” will display several results. We must change the following:

 experiments.activeExperiment 
 experiments.enabled 
 experiments.supported 
 network.allow-experiments

2. Double-click on each entry to change their value to False (disabled)

That's all. Telemetry, data collection and experiments are now disabled, your privacy has improved, and Firefox Quantum has become faster.

To improve the anonymity and privacy of Firefox, I highly recommend enabling First-Party Isolation. This is a very important feature that has long been used in the Tor browser.

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