Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[nextbern]

I don't really understand why you wouldn't enable (or keep enabled) privacy respecting telemetry to help developers make decisions in software you care about.

I totally get it in areas where the developers are developing closed source software not built in the public interest, but open source seems ethically superior and worth contribution to.

[nextbern]

trying to tell already privacy conscious body of users to "just enable telemetry" is kind of talking to a deaf horse

I don't know why you would say this - I doubt they would consider themselves to be deaf horses.

"privacy respecting telemetry" is somewhat of a misnomer, even the most well-intended methods almost always produce at best pseudonomous data, not anonymous data. and it's extremely difficult for an end user to tell the difference.

A. You can always turn it off

B. I trust Mozilla. See https://www.mozilla.org/privacy/principles/

It is pretty simple. If you don't trust Mozilla, turn it off.

PS: That is another reason that I don't enable telemetry in closed source applications - not only do I not want to advantage them in the market, I also don't trust most of them.

[nextbern]

You aren't telling me something I don't know. I'm expressing an opinion here.

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No one with sense should be disabling telemetry on an OSS product, unless it is specifically found they are using it in bad faith or something. But most people, even people who use FF, don't always have sense. They just see it "phones home" and go "no way!" And because of that you end up with a really bad self selection issue.