Startup contacts ad and telemetry servers despite opt-outs
The app contacts Mozilla ad and telemetry servers at startup even when tracking is disabled.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 9 January 2025 · last reported 25 August 2025
What's going wrong
Users of an open-source Android browser fork report that it reaches out to advertising and telemetry hosts when it first launches, even after they turned off tracking and did not sign in.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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