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What part of the telemetry is aggressive?

• moonshinefe 5y ago
  https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier/ https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-... From the top of HN literally yesterday. They can match user downloads to multiple installs across systems now. The "solution" is to select "opt out of telemetry" in the settings, which you can't get to until after you've installed the browser and it's already happened.
  • jwilk 5y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715163 (425 comments)
  • bkberry352 5y ago
    Telemetry waits 30 minutes to start sending to give users time to opt out, see the note in the documentation: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/telemetry/data/new-profile-ping.html https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...
    • moonshinefe 5y ago
      Ah interesting. Thanks for the info. Not sure most people will know about that, but it's something! Edit: It appears to be for the new-profile ping not the install pings.