[Farow]

Couldn't crash reports be separated from other telemetry data, possibly with a dialog letting the user whether to send a crash report or not? IIRC, the dialog used to actually exist in older Firefox versions. I find the amount of data they collect[1] to be borderline creepy.

[1] https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

[kbrosnan]

The crash reports at https://crash-stats.mozilla.org are a separate opt in bit of telemetry which is a dialog that is shown when Firefox crashes. You can opt into automatically sending them by setting browser.crashReports.unsubmittedCheck.autoSubmit2 to true. It can be true if you opted into a dialog about submitting unsubmitted crash reports.

https://probes.telemetry.mozilla.org/?search=crash shows automatic telemetry probes. The main bit of data in that set is FX_CONTENT_CRASH_* and you can see the back and forth from the data steward and the engineer adding the probe. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269961#c8

[sfink]

> I find the amount of data they collect[1] to be borderline creepy.

What in that report is creepy? Surely knowing the percentage of people on 32- vs 64-bit isn't problematic. Maybe add-ons? I'm genuinely curious.

[Farow]

Usage times, usage intensity, list of all extensions, country of origin. I don't understand why they'd need those to improve Firefox.

Next thing you know they might try to increase engagement time like they're some sort of social network. "Unlock the new exclusive colorway by logging in 30 days in a row." seems like something that could be implemented, seeing how they're time limited already.