To disable it in about:config

browser.search.serpEventTelemetry.enabled  =  false	
browser.search.serpEventTelemetryCategorization.enabled  =  false
  • brisk@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

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

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      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

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

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        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.