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by mook 3136 days 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.

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I'm not sure what you're referring to, can you clarify?
Sure; 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...

Tracing 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...

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=symbol:%23Rem...