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Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

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757 points shak77 | 4 comments | 15 Dec 17 13:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.057s | source
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_Codemonkeyism ◴[15 Dec 17 15:40 UTC] No.15932530[source]▶
Anyone know how I can turn off Firefox sending technical details and interactions?

Everytime I turn this off, and restart FF it's on again.

58.0b11

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1. kuschku ◴[15 Dec 17 16:29 UTC] No.15932933[source]▶
If you are on a Nightly or Developer build, you can not turn it off, I asked on Mozilla’s IRC.

Downloading these builds is considered opt-in into telemetry, and toolkit.telemetry.enabled is hardcoded to enabled, the opt-out checkbox literally does nothing, I was told. And about:config confirmed this.

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2. _Codemonkeyism ◴[15 Dec 17 16:31 UTC] No.15932945[source]▶
Thanks for the insight.

Would be good UI to a.) disable the control b.) add a comment.

3. djsumdog ◴[15 Dec 17 16:44 UTC] No.15933050[source]▶
Wow ... that's .. disturbing
4. detaro ◴[15 Dec 17 19:37 UTC] No.15934392[source]▶
Okay, having a checkbox that does nothing is really bad. The fact that the privacy policy only just says something like "this policy might not apply to non-release builds", without actually having a policy for those also is more than questionable.