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Is Waterfox considered as Firefox in Mozilla surveys? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by Subject6051@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Mozilla usually sends a ping to your browser and that's how they know you are using firefox and that's how Mozilla counts the reducing number of users who are using FF, so I was wondering if this survey includes forks of FF.

PS: If you turn off telemetry completely, you won't be counted in surveys, most Mozilla forks are more private by default than FF itself. So, I was wondering if more people were using forks and abandoning FF for privacy reasons. Thus reducing the count. That makes sense?

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[–] lemann@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

Probably not, most forks rip the telemetry out