The new Firefox 75, which recently released, brings a new scheduled task to Windows that enables data collection, and the information are submitted to Mozilla once a day.
Mozilla pre-announced the change in March 2020, stating that the purpose of this new planned work, which is only enabled if users enable it, is to help improve Firefox by “understanding default browser trends”.
Of course, Mozilla states that they are not personally collected data, because the company is only interested in “information about the browser's current and previous default settings, as well as the version running on operating system".
Mozilla guarantees that the data collected can not be associated with any normal profile and as soon as users turn off the telemetry, the service is automatically turned off.
Of course, as mentioned above, users can stop the service on their own by simply deleting the scheduled task from Windows 10.
"Telemetry data collection is one way we can ensure that we can understand the default browser trends in a way that helps us improve Firefox. "We hope to better understand our users and their choices around browser preferences, so we can continue to build a better Firefox," says Mozilla.
If you want to check the information that Mozilla collects from Firefox, you can open the following internal address:
about: telemetry
This σελίδα it shows the information collected and the details that have been stored in the past and that have already been submitted to Mozilla.
Mozilla states that it will keep the telemetry data for 13 months "only", after all the information is automatically removed. On the other hand, once you turn off telemetry from Firefox, your data is deleted from Mozilla servers within 30 days.
