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Most good stuffed Distros do this. For example SUSE recently banned a package because of "calling home" e.g. did side-leading. https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-remo...

Debian indeed does this. In release FF has disabled telemetry: https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox

Unfortunately that is not entirely true.

For example, when closing firefox on OpenSUSE Leap 15.6, "pingsender" is launched to collect telemetry:

It has been there for years. It is also on other distros.

Did someone report/open a issue about it? Maybe it's as simple as them not being aware of it.

I wouldn't think the Firefox license allows them to do that. I thought only binaries built by Mozilla could use the FF brand.

Indeed, Mozilla only recently allowed Debian to use the brand for their modified version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_tradema...

That’s the reason for a while we had IceWeasel