Hello. I don't know if it has already been discussed, but in Firefox, in about:preferences#privacy, "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" and "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" are enabled by default. Ok, I trust Mozilla, but these should be opt-in features, IMO. I don't want to start a flame, but I ask if someone could kindly point me where, in Fedora, this question has already been discussed.
Thanks, A.
On 03/03/18 16:00, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
I don't know if it has already been discussed, but in Firefox, in about:preferences#privacy, "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" and "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" are enabled by default. Ok, I trust Mozilla, but these should be opt-in features, IMO. I don't want to start a flame, but I ask if someone could kindly point me where, in Fedora, this question has already been discussed.
I have a fresh install of F27. All of the boxes you mention are un-checked. I didn't touch FF much since I mainly use Chrome. So, I think they must have been unchecked by default. I don't recall if I was asked my preference.
On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 17:33:40 +0800 Ed Greshko ed.greshko@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/03/18 16:00, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
I don't know if it has already been discussed, but in Firefox, in about:preferences#privacy, "Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" and "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" are enabled by default. Ok, I trust Mozilla, but these should be opt-in features, IMO. I don't want to start a flame, but I ask if someone could kindly point me where, in Fedora, this question has already been discussed.
I have a fresh install of F27. All of the boxes you mention are un-checked. I didn't touch FF much since I mainly use Chrome. So, I think they must have been unchecked by default. I don't recall if I was asked my preference.
When new/fresh profile is created I always saw a small "status line" in the bottom with a button (I think it doesn't pop-up immediately, but after some short period of time (~10 seconds maybe), asking about data collection, which when clicked opens the preferences where you can switch those off. That is what I remember from last time.
Regards, Branko
On 03/03/18 17:33, Ed Greshko wrote:
I have a fresh install of F27. All of the boxes you mention are un-checked. I didn't touch FF much since I mainly use Chrome. So, I think they must have been unchecked by default. I don't recall if I was asked my preference.
Oh, scratch that. The system I was checking on was a fresh install. But, the home directory had been restored from a backup that already had a .mozilla directory from previous versions of Fedora.
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