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Klonoar

>Stop tracking people with telemetry. You don’t need to know how many users you have.

Uhhh... what? If I was in Mozilla's shoes I would 100% want to know how many users I have.

>People strip FF of telemetry anyways. Look at LibreWolf and learn.

Some people do this. Not everyone does it.

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> If I was in Mozilla's shoes I would 100% want to know how many users I have.

Which they can trivially extract from the number of hits to the auto-update version checker endpoint.

That's enough. You don't need to track every single mouse-click, visited site, or anything else.

> You don't need to track every single mouse-click, visited site, or anything else. They don't track mouse clicks or visited sites. You can see everything collected by going to about:telemetry

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