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Ant P.
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 Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 10:43 pm Post subject: [solved] Firefox 61: toolkit.telemetry.enabled forced on? |
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While scrolling through about:config for something else I came across this unpleasant surprise:
| Code: | | toolkit.telemetry.enabled | locked | boolean | true |
And sure enough, the UI checkbox to turn this stuff off is greyed out. What's going on?
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mike155
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422689
| Bugzilla message #3 wrote: | On Firefox Desktop starting with 58 toolkit.telemetry.enabled is locked to "true" on beta, aurora, and nightly channels (as well as unofficial builds with the 'default' channel). It is locked to "false" in all other cases.
This, rather unstraighforwardly, does not mean Telemetry is enabled. This means that, if telemetry is enabled, we collect somewhat more information. More details about our unfortunately-confusing Telemetry preferences can be found in the docs[1] and in the bug tree rooted at bug 1406390.
To disable Telemetry, uncheck the box in about:preferences labelled "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla". That will disable all data collection from Firefox to Mozilla via Telemetry. The corresponding about:config pref is `datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled`
We plan on straightening out the confusion caused by these historical naming artefacts next year.
[1]: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/telemetry/telemetry/internals/preferences.html
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No need to worry!  |
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| That's silly, but I'll assume they're being honest. The rest of The Internet is pretty good at calling them out when they do underhanded things with privacy. |
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The Main Man
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 8:18 am Post subject: |
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| Any reason why there's no firefox-bin 61 for a long time now ? |
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Juippisi
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| kajzer wrote: | | Any reason why there's no firefox-bin 61 for a long time now ? |
https://bugs.gentoo.org/659686 No devs to support it. |
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The Main Man
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the information, should have searched bugzilla  |
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