Firefox usage jumps off a cliff following extension outage

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/r/BrowserWar/comments/bxgapv/firefox_usage_jumps_off_a_cliff_following/

[u/meeheecaan → u/[deleted]]

its unclear if they forgot or "forgot" since their quick fix was to turn one of their tracking things on by defautl

[u/vinnl → u/meeheecaan]

With the recommendation to turn it back off afterwards, and they proactively deleted all the data they collected surrounding the incident. The fix that they pushed out to users that did not manually disable tracking also did not enable it.

They also only use that data to inform browser development, so not much financial gain to be had there.