I compared with librewolf ebuild and found out it has disabled telemetry by default, so maybe having a telemetry use flag is not a bad idea? where telemery is disabled in librewolf: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/gentoo/-/blob/master/www-client/librewolf/librewolf-112.0.1_p2.ebuild#L792 Reproducible: Always
I vaguely remember this being tied to some core functionality, as kurly also pointed out by linking that old bug, but will need to see what exactly gets disabled with that flag.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6df3faf82239bb42832e1057188b5204be986415 commit 6df3faf82239bb42832e1057188b5204be986415 Author: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-04-23 14:10:31 +0000 Commit: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-04-23 14:20:14 +0000 www-client/firefox: bug fixes for 112.0.1 - add error-state returning to virtwl(), - allow disabling telemetry via an USE flag, - include an upstream patch to fix weird bitmap font behaviour (upstream bug #1827950). Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/904354 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/904756 Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> www-client/firefox/Manifest | 2 +- www-client/firefox/firefox-112.0.1.ebuild | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Additional context: commit 1dcdc2649f0478c4b35ab4200c797e50ca6be69e Author: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Apr 24 08:20:19 2023 +0300 www-client/firefox: default-enable telemetry, as intended by upstream Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org>
