Telemetry with Arkenfox?

https://lemmy.one/post/1093948

Telemetry with Arkenfox? - Lemmy.one

I noticed that “incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org [http://incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org]” is blocked by NextDNS when using Firefox with Arkenfox installed every time I start up the browser. Even though it’s being blocked at the DNS level I thought Arkenfox removed all telemetry?

It does get rid of it all

Per one of the Arkenfox maintainers: “There’s nothing wrong with mozilla’s telemetry - it uses PRIO, and it uses GLEAN, and it doesn’t collect any PII, and it helps decisions upstream (and I’m not talking pedantic UI changes) that benefit everyone. Opt-in doesn’t work. I’m sure you can google why. There is no reason to distrust Mozilla here - you’re using their product” github.com/arkenfox/user.js/issues/1659#issuecomm…

That being said, if anyone wishes to block this you can do so by following the Arkenfox recommendations and setting up uBO: github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions And/or a network wide DNS blocker (which OP did).

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