Preamble/Introduction
As someone who migrated from Windows 11 to Linux Mint a few years ago (Last time I owned a desktop was around Windows 7) #telemetry was one of the bugbears I met upon my return to my nerdy side. While it was mainly programs being referenced as apps by the Microsoft Edge chat-bot which inevitably made me throw caution to the wind and just risk going through the process of delineating partitions (Probably not risky at all, but I didn’t know) and start dual-booting, I would mainly use the Firefox ESR that’s part of the Mint distribution the more comfortable I got within the Linux environment over the Chromium Edge in Windows.
Point/Question
While I did disable some telemetry (if not pre-configured) I hadn’t really thought much about it until I started exploring some of the Telemetry that’s been going on, probably not the culprit of my memory issues (which led me to about:things). Initially a bit taken aback, but I have explored the SQLite database kept with the browser before so not alarming that some of my client-side gets reported server-side. When I got to browsing some of the links with the telemetry, like the Source Docs, indirectly this forum (original link maybe outdated?) and see how the data was used, I actually found it interesting. I’ve had a profile for a while with Mozilla, but not a user here on discourse so I’m not sure where I could be informed of the public benefit of this type of harvesting/pinging, I suppose I do know where I can go to check up on the open use of the data now, but I’d still be interested if there was some kind of option to be updated/informed on continued or even new uses for this.
Closing/Clarification
I’m not sure where a post like this would fit (if it fits at all?) as I couldn’t tag toolkit or telemetry, I figured “Mozillians” was the closest to in my mind, but I do apologize if I’ve committed a faux pas in regards to this forums convention with my first post. I suppose I could also mention that I’m somewhat interested in all of this on a hobby basis and I’m likely to stick around for a bit in search of serendipitous discoveries.