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Links for the password manager, "Firefox Lockwise" go through adjust, which appears to be a tracking/analytics/marketing platform. This is both through their website and by clicking through the Firefox UI menu.

I guess it's harder to walk the walk yourself when the desires to track usage and analytics come from within your own teams.

Check the links yourself over at:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/lockwise/

And built in to Firefox by going about:logins, the top right * menu and clicking Lockwise for Android or Lockwise for iPhone

You end up with redirect links like:

https://app.adjust.com/6tteyjo?redirect=

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To be fair, it's common practice to measure marketing campaign effectiveness. Mozilla doesn't hide that they share data to "Measure and support our marketing"

"Campaign and Referral Data: This helps Mozilla understand the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns."

"On iOS and Android: Firefox by default sends mobile campaign data to Adjust, our analytics vendor, which has its own privacy policy. Mobile campaign data includes a Google advertising ID, IP address, timestamp, country, language/locale, operating system, and app version. Read the documentation."

Src: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

I mean, they act like all of the info Google takes in goes straight to ads, when a lot of it goes to it's analytics platform

I fail to see how the latter prevents the former. This is digital information that can be copied endlessly, not a physical object that can only be owned by one entity at a time.

Google doesn't share data between Analytics and Ads behind the scenes, only if you set it up through the the site owner and it doesn't go through to other sites.

Not sure what your point is? Of course it's common practice. Of course it's useful information for the business. Of course it will be documented in their privacy policy.

You just described basically all tracking and analytics. This is what they are blocking by default for everyone except themselves apparently.....

And I can't opt-out?

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