The new Firefox 75, which was released only a few days ago, comes with a new scheduled task in Windows that enables data collection, with the information submitted to Mozilla once a day.Mozilla announced the change in March this year, explaining that the purpose of this new scheduled task, which is only enabled if users activate telemetry in the first place, is to help improve Firefox by “understanding default browser trends.”
Of course, Mozilla says that personal data is collected, as the company is only interested in “information related to the system’s current and previous default browser setting, as well as the operating system locale and version.”
Mozilla guarantees that the collected data cannot be associated with a regular profile, and once users opt out of telemetry, ... (read more)
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