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Do they include also the google analytics that are built into firefox addons page?

No, these cannot be skipped without external request blocking, like on DNS level. Even µblock won't block GA built-in in Firefox.

uMatrix defaults to blocking GA and indeed blocks the request for analytics.js on that page.

Really? I thought no extensions are permitted to run on that page.

i now realise you/parent were talking about the about:addons page, not the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ web page.

Can you elaborate what page you mean? I see nothing in the source of https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=blah or about:addons

I believe they are talking about an outdated issue:

https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785#issue...

It is not outdated since it requires you to enable Do not track which makes you a target for tracking. It is bad design and they know it. They don't even respect their own disable analytics toggle.

Not only that, but Mozilla deliberately continues to send telemetry about your network, browser, and OS even when you explicitly disable telemetry: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/21/mozilla-wants-to-estimate-...

When Microsoft is more honest and upfront about user privacy then you are, then you have a problem.

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