This particular piece of telemetry tracking was expected, as Mozilla announced Firefox 75 would include a scheduled task that would “help understand changes in default browser settings” back in March.Įssentially, Firefox 75 collects information regarding a user’s current and previous default browser settings once every 24 hours. The latest version of the Firefox browser, Firefox 75, is a key example of this: Firefox 75 actively reports users’ default browser settings to Mozilla once a day by default.Ĭollecting user data isn’t uncommon for web browsers, but considering Mozilla’s and Firefox’s histories of consumer- and privacy-focused ethoses, the browser’s steady march towards data collection is somewhat troubling.
The key criticism lobbied against Mozilla is its drift toward surreptitious telemetry. However, Mozilla (the company behind Firefox) has been under heavy criticism the past few years for seemingly anti-consumer and anti-privacy practices. The browser is highly malleable thanks to the robust extension library available to users.
Firefox is the second-most popular desktop web browser and with good reason.
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