I believe the settings to disable this on Librewolf are set by default…
Well this one is not false, :(
browser.search.serpEventTelemetry.enabled
Though this one is:
browser.search.serpEventTelemetryCategorization.enabled
So it seems not quite fully disabled… But telemetry is supposed to be off on librewolf…
kbal ( @kbal@fedia.io ) 12•11 months agoThe data being collected is meant to enhance the appeal of Firefox as an ad platform for customers who might want to buy paid placements in Firefox Suggest. Perhaps they also consider it useful as a trial balloon to test the reaction it gets before heading further in that direction. The reaction it gets will not be good.
Looks like I may finally be trying out Librewolf.
toastal ( @toastal@lemmy.ml ) 7•11 months agoWelcome. 😃
lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) English5•11 months agoLooks like I may finally be trying out Librewolf.
I like the out of the box experience of LibreWolf very much but it will not work well for all websites in my case. Luckily Firefox and LibreWolf can be installed and used at the same time without any issues.
ChiefBongo ( @chiefbongo@mastodon.social ) 7•11 months ago@kixik #Firefox is signing its own death sentence. Unacceptable! 🤬🤬🤬 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/
electricprism ( @electricprism@lemmy.ml ) 8•11 months agoThose million dollar CEO pay increases aren’t going to increase themselves…
Jake ( @Jake_T12@mastodon.social ) 2•11 months ago@chiefbongo @kixik Hi Chief I switched it off in settings…
You might want to set both configs off. Not just one, although one seems off by default, but better make sure both get off in librewolf.cfg…
johny_joe_1975 ( @johny_joe_1975@discuss.online ) 1•10 months agoFirefox need insight on its search ?
lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) English4•11 months agoI would not mind if LibreWolf would be based on Firefox ESR (Like Tor and Mullvad browser are). The speed of the amount of new features added to Firefox is something I can do without.
HouseWolf ( @HouseWolf@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months agoI might be a bit out of the loop but I assumed the LibreWolf team already removes questionable code when building their fork?
lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months agoYes. My point was that by using Firefox ESR as base the update cycle would be much slower which I would welcome.
Fisch ( @Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•11 months agoBut what would be the benefit of that?
kbal ( @kbal@fedia.io ) 1•11 months agoI find Firefox ESR much more relaxing to use than the version that springs new features and bugs on you randomly throughout the year.
lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months agoFirefox ESR is like LTS. It would mean less work for LibreWolf maintainers and less upgrades for the users.
johny_joe_1975 ( @johny_joe_1975@discuss.online ) English2•11 months agoSo, how come firefox become spyware now ?