bloatware by default in Firefox
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	jwinnie
	Jun 15 2020, 10:23 PM

Description

There are a few things that I always disable in Firefox because I consider them to be spyware/adware/bloatware:

Telemetry (telemetry should be opt-in, not opt-out)
DNS-over-HTTPS (Mozilla's implementation sends all DNS data to Cloudflare and can be quite buggy)
Pocket Extension (not useful to 99% of users and only included by default because Mozilla owns Pocket)
Sponsored Articles (literally adware)
"Recommend extensions/features as you browse" (shows annoying popups while you browse the internet and often used by Mozilla to promote their other products)

It would be nice if Solus could disable these by default.

No.

Telemetry is useful for feature development and crash reporting. It's not being removed. You're welcome to disable any of it.
DNS-over-HTTPS is a security feature. You can deploy your own DNS-over-HTTPS compliant dns server and change the value: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https#w_switching-providers. Not being disabled.
This may be useful to some of our users. Literally zero reason to remove it.
This is related to Pocket. You can disable it yourself.
Recommended addons is something we already disable OOTB per extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled being set to false in our default prefs.js.