Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data

• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The issue is that Mozilla is actively hiding these settings.

  They are under “Privacy”, just as I expected where they would.

  There’s one (I forgot which one) that you can’t find by searching for the title in the FF settings, you have to scroll to it yourself.

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, you can disable the settings that are exposed to you with a checkbox. How about all the other that have no checkboxes and you can find by snooping around in either the code or about:config ?

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How about all the other that have no checkboxes and you can find by snooping around in either the code or about:config ?

      Which are? Genuine question. I’m not aware of those either.

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      • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not going to enumerate them, mostly because I did not keep track of which one was on and which one was off before messing all of them up. If you’re curious, open “about:config” and search for “survey*.enabled”, “collect*.enabled”. Even with all settings disabled, some of them remains on, and they do cause traffic to the (documented) endpoints.

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      • micka190@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Someone else in this thread mentioned that going to about:config and typing telemetry will apparently show that some things are still set to true despite unchecking the settings in the Privacy section.

        Note: I’m not the guy you originally replied to, and I haven’t personally tested this. Just pointing out where you can allegedly find those settings if you’re interested. (I personally don’t care and think this whole thing is overblown by the community, for what it’s worth)

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dude, I’m not talking about the specific settings you’ve shown. There’s more settings you should set regarding privacy, and (at least a couple of months ago) one of them wasn’t appearing when searching for it.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s more settings you should set regarding privacy

      Please be more specific.

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