On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 09:47 -0500, John Florian wrote: > On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 11:16 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > 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. > > Count me in the same boat. I hadn't noticed that option until now. > > However, before I toggled it off, I noticed the setting "Prevent > accessibility services from accessing your browser". I briefly read > the "Learn more" for that feature and upon deciding that I have no need > for accessibility services at all, it was just better to toggle that > off. Fx then wanted to restart for that change. Much to my surprise, > when I got back to the security/privacy settings, the one for "Allow Fx > to install and run studies" had vanished ... and yes, the "Allow Fx to > send technical and interaction data to Moz" is still enabled. Sounds related to the issue someone else mentioned about the setting not showing up in languages other than English, perhaps... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
