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What is Firefox supposed to do?

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What is Firefox supposed to do?

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TechnologyEnglish · 2 years ago

Firefox now collects data for advertisers. It's not actually scary, but there is a bigger problem.

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  The support article explains the rationale.
  
  Unchecked by default would render the experiment useless.

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