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Are you in a $3000 Macbook or on a $500 Windows PC? Linux? Power user maybe? And so on...


Okay, so we know that there's a 2017 MBP running firefox with IP 172.16.23.xx, and the users uses features a, b, c with frequencies x, y, z respectively. How can this be nefariously used?


That's true. I use as many default options I can. But there are good points in the article


> DNT

Leaving it as default makes you hide in the crowd


I'm pretty sure that DNT is off by default in Firefox. That's what I mean when I say that turning it on can be an additional tracking data point.


> data is anonymized

On line anonymity is a myth. Why do we keep spreading it?


Because context matters and your post is going off on a tangent.

Online anonymity is an entirely different topic than whether this one data set collected here is effectively anonymized.


> Interaction data: Firefox sends data about your interactions with Firefox to us (such as number of open tabs and windows; number of webpages visited; number and type of installed Firefox Add-ons; and session length) and Firefox features offered by Mozilla or our partners (such as interaction with Firefox search features and search partner referrals).

> Technical data: Firefox sends data about your Firefox version and language; device operating system and hardware configuration; memory, basic information about crashes and errors; outcome of automated processes like updates, safebrowsing, and activation to us. When Firefox sends data to us, your IP address is temporarily collected as part of our server logs.

> Read the telemetry documentation for Desktop, Android, or iOS or learn how to opt-out of this data collection on Desktop and Mobile.

If that's OK for you, fine. Not for me.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/


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