You probably don't want to be using Firefox Beta. Its purpose is to give feedback to the devs and that feedback telemetry is likely being interpreted as tracking here...
Firefox Beta is for anyone who wants to use a version 1 month ahead of the latest stable Firefox version, and AFAIK it doesn't have more telemetry than stable Firefox versions.
Regardless, you can disable telemetry and studies by setting some preferences in about:config (or a user.js file):
Hmm, well, does your App Tracking Protection say anything about what it's blocking here or how it decided that this traffic is for tracking?
Personally, I have a lot of trust that Mozilla isn't doing shenanigans, because they don't have a profit motive and I have yet to see a case of Mozilla supposedly being evil, which doesn't turn out to just look like that superficially.
Well, and I don't have a lot of trust in such tracking blockers to only block tracking of personal data. They can't actually look at the data being sent, so they massively err on the side of just blocking any telemetry, even if it is completely anonymized / purely technical.
That's not what I wanted to say with that. I will put them under a lot of scrutiny. I tried to explain, why I am willing to put them under a lot of scrutiny rather than just assuming evil corporations be evil.
You probably don't want to be using Firefox Beta. Its purpose is to give feedback to the devs and that feedback telemetry is likely being interpreted as tracking here...
Firefox Beta is for anyone who wants to use a version 1 month ahead of the latest stable Firefox version, and AFAIK it doesn't have more telemetry than stable Firefox versions.
Regardless, you can disable telemetry and studies by setting some preferences in
about:config(or auser.jsfile):Preferences to set
Source: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/fd72683abe15/user.js#L131-L175
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Hmm, well, does your App Tracking Protection say anything about what it's blocking here or how it decided that this traffic is for tracking?
Personally, I have a lot of trust that Mozilla isn't doing shenanigans, because they don't have a profit motive and I have yet to see a case of Mozilla supposedly being evil, which doesn't turn out to just look like that superficially.
Well, and I don't have a lot of trust in such tracking blockers to only block tracking of personal data. They can't actually look at the data being sent, so they massively err on the side of just blocking any telemetry, even if it is completely anonymized / purely technical.
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That's not what I wanted to say with that. I will put them under a lot of scrutiny. I tried to explain, why I am willing to put them under a lot of scrutiny rather than just assuming evil corporations be evil.
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