Summary: | www-client/firefox: MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING should be unset | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | lyzq <lyzq> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | 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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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
lyzq
2019-05-06 14:11:55 UTC
Please also consider to turn off the automated download described here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915582 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. (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? 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 (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. |