Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Noteworthy change in the way Chrome logs in

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 12:02:48 BST Dale wrote:
>> 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-fir
>>>> ef
>>>> 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
>>
>> :-)  :-)
> I'm on 60.2.0 and although other telemetry entries are modifiable, the one I
> mention above is shown as locked.  Apparently this is locked to 'true' for
> pre-release builds and 'false' for release builds:
>
> https://medium.com/georg-fritzsche/data-preference-changes-in-firefox-58-2d5df9c428b5
>


Ahhh.  I was hoping that info might lead to a solution to it but I guess
not.  Better to mention and it not matter than to not mention and it
would have helped.  lol  Heck, I get help from this list but I also try
to help when I can.  All we can do is try. 

We tried.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)