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I cannot overstate my disgust with everyone at Mozilla for doing this. This is the straw that broke the camel's back. I have been using Firefox begrudgingly every since the "studies" feature got unearthed.

It seems to me there are entirely too many people feeding at the trough at Mozilla and they are not managing their money very well.

It seems like I am going to MITM our browser traffic and set up custom filters or something.

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As stated in the article, disabling Firefox Suggest will disable the key logging.

Of course, that doesn't make this any less of a scumbag move.

When I looked, I saw that the option was automatically checked during the upgrade with not a notice given. This is the latest in a series of scummy moves. I spent the last hour trawling through Firefox source code.

In any case, when people act like this, I do not trust that turning off the option actually stops them from keylogging, which is why I am going to look into inspecting traffic.

I don't fucking care if this can be disabled. It's a shit default and the people at Mozilla should personally feel bad it shipped.

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