Where was it before? Been using Firefox non stop for 20 years but last time I went to the website was probably when I still used Windows XP.
The normal download page embeds a unique tracking alphanumeric string in your build that is reported to the organization on a regular basis when the telemetry phones home unless you disable this manually and clear the values.
Is Firefox a honeypot? I can’t see how this serves the user. All telemetry should be opt-in, not opt-out.
We want failsafe, not faildeadly.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/At a time when you'd also install spybot and ccleaner.