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Huh, going through the prefs there it looks like they probably have telemetry going on in the new tab page. Where all your history goes. I miss the Mozilla tha
by mook 9y ago
Huh, going through the prefs there it looks like they probably have telemetry going on in the new tab page. Where all your history goes.
I miss the Mozilla that actually acted like they cared about privacy.
- mintplant 9y agoI'm not sure what you're referring to, can you clarify?
- mook 9y agoSure; I'm just complaining about the _existence_ of `browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry`. I'm not comfortable having tracking so near user data. Now that I'm not on a mobile and can actually look at the code, it looks like it's defined at [1]. I must be reading TelemetryFeed.jsm wrong, though, because that says addSession() holds on to the URL (as .page) and createPing() puts it into the ping... [1]: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/file/FIREFOX_57_0_RELEASE/browser/extensions/activity-stream/lib/ActivityStream.jsm#l120 https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/file/FIREFOX...
- mintplant 9y agoTracing back through the code, this is only triggered with a URL by the RemotePages watcher, which notifies when the URL matches one of a whitelist. The only whitelisted URLs currently are about:home, about:newtab, and about:tabcrashed. https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/modules/RemotePageManager.jsm#64 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/modules... https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=symbol:%23RemotePages&redirect=false https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=symbol:%23Rem...