FS#53571 - [firefox] Disable the recently enabled mozilla surveillance in Arch builds of Firefox
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Opened by Imnotreal (oma) - Wednesday, 05 April 2017, 12:44 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Friday, 09 June 2023, 00:11 GMT
Opened by Imnotreal (oma) - Wednesday, 05 April 2017, 12:44 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Friday, 09 June 2023, 00:11 GMT
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Description:
Latest build of firefox package enables mozilla surveillance through telemetry. Third party remote monitoring tool ought to be opt-in not opt-out. Mozilla itself only enables telemetry in nightlies, aurora and beta but not in release builds. Please revert this change and go back to how things used to be provide arch users with minimal privacy protection by default. |
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Closed by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Friday, 09 June 2023, 00:11 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
Friday, 09 June 2023, 00:11 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
Now I understand that "health report" is telemetry and "telemetry" is extended telemetry. So please ignore the part where I mention telemetry only being enabled out of release channel and consider reverting the change by disabling whole third party remote collection of data through the web browser. At the very least make it all opt-in but it seemds from the Firefox privacy patches[2] that Firefox may collect and send data even when it is disabled from the about:config settings.
[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/jRAqSTri66I
[2]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=202766
To double-check that this was not enabled because of some specific preferences that I set myself, I created a fresh user account with useradd, logged in and started Firefox. The "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" checkmark was set (see attached screenshot). I don't allow anyone to run random code on my machine, so please make this opt-in.
It's basically firefox without the mozilla crap (no spying telemetry, no pocket, no data collection, no startup profiling, no DRM, support of unsigned extensions, support of legacy extensions, ...)
[1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/waterfox-bin/
[1]: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/