Mozilla will stop transfer of telemetry to LeanPlum service in Firefox for Android and iOS

Mozilla decided Do not extend Contract with the Marketing company LEANPLUM, in which telemetry will be sent in mobile versions of Firefox for Android and Chrome. By default, telemetry sending to LeanPlum was included approximately for 10% of users from the United States. Information about sending telemetry was displayed in the settings and was available for shutdown (in the “Data Collection” menu item “Marketing Data”). The contract with LeanPlum expires on May 31, until that time, Mozilla intends to disable integration with LeanPlum services in its products.

on the LEANPLUM servers went Randomly generated unique program identifier (the server could also take into account IP -pads of the user), and the data about when the user opened or saved the bookmarks created new tabs, used the Pocket service, cleared the data, saved passwords, loaded files, connected to the Firefox account, created screenshots, interacting with the address string and used Search guidelines. Additionally, information on the inclusion of synchronization, installation of the Firefox default browser and the presence on the Firefox Focus, Klar and Pocket application device are transmitted. Information was collected to optimize the interface and the functionality of the browser, taking into account the actual behavior and user needs.

/Media reports.