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    2 days ago

    I wonder if mine would’ve been counted there. Even before I switched to Librewolf, Debian disables most of the telemetry.

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        Telemetry can be turned off without modifying the code. I don’t know about the legality of it, maybe in the case of Firefox the other things they do are also at most build options rather than code changes. But generally distros are allowed to make changes to the packages they distribute, that is how free software works.

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          Mozilla owns the Firefox trademark so if they get to choose how the trademark is used. I remember that a while back Mozilla threatened. I can’t remember if it was Debian or Linux Mint who received the threat.

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            Oh yeah, I remember debian’s Firefox used to be called something else for trademark reasons some years ago. I wonder how much linux market share firefox lost as a result. Not sure what changed, I guess in that case Mozilla must’ve come to their senses. I was mostly an ubuntu user in those days.

            … lwn has the story: https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/