I have all Firefox Data Collection and Use options disabled.

Anyone know what all of these services are doing? I assume they’re for auto updates, account sync, and maybe pushing Pocket ads and/or sponsored pins?

Likely, I’ll block most, but curious if anyone knew.

  • mintycactus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At this point it is not clear if it is funding or they just buy enormous amount of data Mozilla collects.

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      1 year ago

      According to their finance report, you’re technically correct. But they get 99% of their funding from a “search engine” company that stays anonymous. I can tell you it isn’t yahoo