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Not only have they added a new telemetry system, it is added as an active scheduled task, without warning, even if you've explicitly configured Firefox not to s
by Silhouette 7y ago
Not only have they added a new telemetry system, it is added as an active scheduled task, without warning, even if you've explicitly configured Firefox not to send data to Mozilla.
(I have just verified that this is in fact the case on my own system shortly after applying the update, before nuking the unauthorised scheduled task from orbit just to be sure.)
- jlgaddis 7y agoFWIW, you may want to disable the scheduled task instead of deleting it. The reason being that a missing/non-existent task may be re-created on update/upgrade, but a disabled one should not (hopefully!) be re-enabled.
- yborg 7y agoPeople assume that X is operating a vast Machiavellian conspiracy and then turn around and assume that X is too stupid to check for either disabled or missing on each run. Which is it?
- adrian17 7y agoSounds like there's a contradiction between this and Mozilla's quote: > We’ll respect user configured telemetry opt-out settings by looking at the most recently used Firefox profile.
- Silhouette 7y agoI can't confirm whether the scheduled task did or did not actually upload any data from my system, only that it shouldn't have needed to be there at all.
- jannes 7y agoIt didn't install for me yet. I think that's because I always click "No" when a software update asks for administrative privileges.
- MikusR 7y agoOn first install Firefox installs maintenance service that runs with admin rights and does that for you.