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Bug 685196

Summary: www-client/firefox: MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING should be unset
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: lyzq <lyzq>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: adpc, david, gentoo, hydrapolic, th-gen
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904756
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Description lyzq 2019-05-06 14:11:55 UTC
The MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING flag seems to be set currently, this makes firefox default to Studies being enabled. If anyone wants that at all it should be behind an off-by-default USE flag.
Comment 1 ad PC 2019-05-06 20:23:31 UTC
Please also consider to turn off the automated download described here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915582
Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-03-29 02:40:35 UTC
From https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/telemetry/internals/preferences.html:

> [..] For builds you make yourself with a blank mozconfig,
> MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL is set to default and everything else is undefined.
> This means Telemetry is, by default, collecting an extended amount of
> information but isn’t sending it anywhere.
Comment 3 David Heidelberg (okias) 2020-03-29 22:45:34 UTC
(In reply to Thomas Deutschmann from comment #2)
> > This means Telemetry is, by default, collecting an extended amount of
> > information but isn’t sending it anywhere.

If it's not send anywhere, we don't need to collect it, right?
Comment 4 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-03-29 23:54:21 UTC
No. You are still able to view stats locally through various channels like about:telemetry. Personally, I find it very useful to get stats about SSL version/cipher usage.
Comment 5 ad PC 2020-03-30 08:40:21 UTC
If (In reply to Thomas Deutschmann from comment #4)
> No. You are still able to view stats locally through various channels like
> about:telemetry. Personally, I find it very useful to get stats about SSL
> version/cipher usage.

If YOU find it very useful, then YOU can enable it for YOUR browser.