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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To disable it in about:config

browser.search.serpEventTelemetry.enabled  =  false	
browser.search.serpEventTelemetryCategorization.enabled  =  false

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is an actually moral alternative to opt-out that doesn't have the poor-sampling problem of opt-in: ask for consent explicitly.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's the ideal solution morally-wise, but it still samples out a ton of users precisely because people are used to the idea of telemetry = bad

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

did-someone

I wonder why users would have such a bias, other than their experience over the last 25 years.
I’m a developer. I side with the users on this.