​Mozilla quietly deploys built-in Firebox advertising

[bobajeff]

http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-gets-built-in-firebox-advertising-rolling/

[teaneedz]

If tiles are disabled / opted-out does Firefox cease sending this data to the mothership?

I have to admit that as a long time Firefox user, Mozilla's recent product decisions are driving me slowly away.

[zb3]

As for fetching them, that's just a matter of blocking "tiles.services.mozilla.com".

However, I couldn't really understand what data is being sent to Mozilla in general use cases.

Does FF send data about normal browsing usage or just data about interaction with those suggested tiles?

[vorian → zb3]

From the article

'That said, Firefox does send your browser history to Mozilla. '

[bzbarsky → vorian]

The article doesn't seem to contain this text anymore. Which is good, since it was false.