Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 03:11:38 BST Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 02:59:17PM +0100, Mick wrote >> >>> This is worse than I expected. OK, therefore never signing into Google's >>> systems with Chromium is the only way to stop this invasion of privacy. >>> Thankfully, we still have Firefox. ;-) >> Ahemm... >> https://dustri.org/b/mozilla-is-still-screwing-around-with-privacy-in-firef >> ox.html > Yes, there is this leaking agent running in FF, but I have (almost) disabled > telemetry. The problem is this pesky entry which is shown as "locked" and > therefore unable to be disabled in about:config > > Preference Name Status Type Value > ========================= ====== ======= ===== > toolkit.telemetry.enabled locked boolean true >
Just for giggles, I looked at my config and it shows a default status and is set to false. Maybe it is a difference in version or could it be a USE flag makes a difference or something else??? I'm on Firefox 52.9.0. Maybe you are using the latest version. I'm stuck here due to some add ons not ready for the newer versions. Dale :-) :-)
