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Firefox tracks users with Google Analytics in the add-on settings | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753546

  "Someone submitted a PR to Mozilla to fix this, and the Mozilla devs closed it"
Impossible to opt-out until about 2 weeks ago.

Come on, that was a bug in the new preferences pages.

The telemetry I was talking about is exactly the one, where you get a bar at the bottom during first launch. Try it, you will see it.

Perhaps this instance was an honest mistake.

The specifics of a custom deal with Google and the circling of the wagons (specifically opinions expressed by multiple Mozilla employees in an official capacity) prior to reversing course does not strengthen that case.

If you say no, it won't send anything.

This simply wasn't true; I am glad that the implementation was fixed.

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