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I've switched back to the old menu until they fix the bug. I use open in normal tab tens of times a day.
Honestly, I'm kinda at fault here. Both my NextDNS and Pi-Hole block Telemetry, so they're not getting usage numbers to support prioritising the feature.
You can disable this?
Edit: found it. I disabled the experiment. Thank you so much!
I don't think it's you who is at fault here
There's a means built-in to shower usage. If my network blocks that and they think no one is using the feature. That's on me. As a Nightly user, I should support the product with bug reports and also things like letting them know which features I use and how often.
I'm blocking that too, it's even disabled in the settings. in my opinion they shouldn't be doing this in a privacy oriented browser in an opt-out manner. look at where they host the data: GCP and AWS. that's maybe fine for firefox sync data because it's encrypted (probably only on a per-record level though, so it may still be useful to measure activity), but for usage data, no thanks
that makes some difference, but they shouldn't count the needs of nightly users as the needs of release users. totally different userbase, to begin with
But your definition of privacy is different to theirs. You see all Telemetry as bad. They say that the world isn't so binary and that there's good telemetry and bad telemetry. Also they have data to prove that opt in doesn't work. They shouldn't kneecap an entire project just to keep a handful of privacy zealots happy. Of which I fall into that category given my DNS level blocks.
As for Nightly users, they're still users.