Firefox 52.0

Posted Mar 11, 2017 2:15 UTC (Sat) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: Firefox 52.0 by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Firefox 52.0

I think it really means "me".

Firefox 52.0

Posted Mar 11, 2017 13:35 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Quite. Turning telemetry off and then whining that Mozilla broke features you use seems profoundly self-defeating to me. The point of the telemetry is to tell that the features you use are actually in use: by turning it off, you're saying that you don't care if Mozilla doesn't take your personal usage patterns into consideration by making changes. If it then goes ahead and doesn't take your personal usage patterns into consideration, it is just doing what you asked!

Firefox 52.0

Posted Mar 11, 2017 19:37 UTC (Sat) by rompel (guest, #4512) [Link]

Not really a fair argument given that telemetry is off by default in release builds.

In fact, with telemetry only coming from users who have installed a pre-release build (and not opted-out) or have manually turned on an obscure preference knob, it's hard to make the case that the data comes from a representative sample of users.