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You’re suggesting there is a mass campaign to spoof Firefox telemetry and mask high levels of FTP usage?
by untog 7y ago
You’re suggesting there is a mass campaign to spoof Firefox telemetry and mask high levels of FTP usage?
- rolph 7y agoim suggesting that everyone i know and thier mother intentionally spoofs any telemetry or analytics they can rather than block it. nothing atypical about it, it is very distinctive to comepletely block fingerprinting analytics telemetry. it is much better to spoof the content rather than block it.
- untog 7y agoThen everyone you know and particularly their mother is extremely atypical.
- jcranmer 7y agoSince you seem to be such an expert, can you tell me how you go about spoofing Firefox's telemetry?
- rolph 7y agohave a look around github the breadcrumbs start here: https://gist.github.com/MrYar/751e0e5f3f1430db7ec5a8c8aa237b72 https://gist.github.com/MrYar/751e0e5f3f1430db7ec5a8c8aa237b... https://github.com/search?q=spoof+telemetry https://github.com/search?q=spoof+telemetry if you know how to do a web search do that. if you cant then sorry about the luck.
- jcranmer 7y agoThe gist talks about disabling telemetry, not spoofing it, and reading the prefs it sets makes it clear that it is actually disabling it. The github search reports a single repository last updated three years ago, and doesn't appear to even be related to Firefox telemetry at all, as the telemetry appears to be spacecraft telemetry.
- majewsky 7y agoEven if it's not spoofed, I would conjecture that the set of people using FTP has a large overlap with the set of people who disable telemetry.