On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 11:09 -0800, Gerald B. Cox wrote: >> >> First of all, when you install Fx, it asks you specifically if you want to >> participate in Fx Data Collection - you can opt out at that point. > > Well, not quite. I installed Firefox rather a long time ago on this > system. Again I can't prove it, but at that time I believe this > question and preference referred *only* to 'data collection'. However, > since then, a new sub-preference seems to have appeared, labelled > 'Allow Firefox to install and run studies'. It appears, so far as I can > tell, that they are claiming this promotional tie-in constituted a > "study". That's a weak claim to start with, but more importantly, I am > fairly sure this "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" preference > was simply set to 'true' when it was *added* to Firefox. I was not > asked. If I had been, I'm pretty sure I would've said no. I don't remember being actively asked about such data collection, and I've recently installed on a clean system, nightly on Fedora, and then final releases of 57 on Windows and macOS. Does anyone have a screen shot or description of what this "ask" looks like, and when it appears? -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
