{"id":210,"date":"2023-02-20T16:12:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2023-02-20T16:12:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T22:12:59","slug":"firefox-telemetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/20\/firefox-telemetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox telemetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was looking at my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/adguard.com\/en\/adguard-home\/overview.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/adguard.com\/en\/adguard-home\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">Adguard for home server<\/a> dashboard and I noticed the blocked links for Mozilla Firefox is sending telemetry data. I did some looking and Firefox data is mainly to help it make a better product but some products go too far. Either way, I want to disable it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"873\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry.png 873w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry-768x246.png 768w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry-660x212.png 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><figcaption>Adguard blocking Firefox telemetry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefox doesn&#8217;t hide that they are doing this, and posted an article on how to disable it <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/telemetry-clientid\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/telemetry-clientid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>. Basically, go to Settings \/ Privacy &amp; Security, and scroll down until you see, &#8220;Firefox Data Collection and Use&#8221; section. Uncheck the option that says, &#8220;Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry2.png 704w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry2-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry2-660x322.png 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><figcaption>Uncheck the option that says, &#8220;Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After you uncheck the option, you will see the below message. All good now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"752\" height=\"79\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry3.png 752w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry3-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Firefox-Telemetry3-660x69.png 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><figcaption>Good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was looking at my Adguard for home server dashboard and I noticed the blocked links for Mozilla Firefox is sending telemetry data. I did some looking and Firefox data is mainly to help it make a better product but some products go too far. Either way, I want to disable it. Firefox doesn&#8217;t hide that\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/20\/firefox-telemetry\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}