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Actually I wish they would say what they know about our online activity. The answer can't be as they said. They do collect some (telemetry and Mozilla accounts). I don't think it's much but it would be nice to know.
You can see what is gathered by opening about:telemetry. That page also has links to dashboards derived from telemetry data.
You can read the policies that apply to what data may be collected at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection
When I first saw this I assumed it would be some locally-processed feature of Firefox that could give you some statistics about your browsing history.
That actually would be interesting to look at, and it shouldn't require any violation of privacy if it is done right.
That actually would be interesting to look at, and it shouldn't require any violation of privacy if it is done right.
There are some add-ons that purport to do that, but not enough data is stored to make it easy.
For example, the third top website in my browsing history was a site I visited for one hour. It has an interactive map, and adds a history entry for the current coordinate (with apparently no denouncing if you drag and pan).
You could possibly mitigate a little with time between new pages, but that fails with more than one tab and for the last website someone visits in a session.
I think you need to collect more data as you browse for this to work.
For example, the third top website in my browsing history was a site I visited for one hour. It has an interactive map, and adds a history entry for the current coordinate (with apparently no denouncing if you drag and pan).
You could possibly mitigate a little with time between new pages, but that fails with more than one tab and for the last website someone visits in a session.
I think you need to collect more data as you browse for this to work.