Re: telemetry is active or partially active

[chippy]

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Sorry I was wrong and I rushed to conclusion without proper
documentation.

Telemetry is indeed disabled.
Please disregard my previous message.

Chippy 

On Tue, 2024-02-13 at 08:56 +0100, chippy wrote:
> Hi everybody, 
> 
> recently I received a message from an Icecat user (I believe windows
> version) stating that telemetry was enabled and the settings was
> read-
> only in about:config and as such, it couldn't be changed (disabled).
> 
> At first I thought it was some mistake but I checked on my system and
> toolkit.telemetry.enabled is indeed on "TRUE" and I cannot change it.
> 
> I've been looking where it comes from and it should be the result of
> copying data/settings.js to browser/app/profile/icecat.js.
> 
> I checked the latter and there, toolkit.telemetry.enabled is FALSE.
> 
> So where is this coming from?
> I could reproduce this on macos and debian.
> 
> ALso I noticed that there are some pings enabled in data/settings.js
> like the shutdown ping. 
> 
> Also in about:config, searching for telemetry I could see 
> 
> - toolkit.telemetry.dap_helper ->
> https://helper1.dap.cloudflareresearch.com/v02
> - toolkit.telemetry.dap_leader -> https://dap-02.api.divviup.org
> 
> This is unexpected
> 
> **Can I ask if it's only me?**
> 
> Does anyone of you guys have the same problem?
> 
> Mainly I'm interested in understanding how/when/where
> toolkit.telemetry.enabled goes from FALSE to TRUE and possibly fix
> it.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Chippy
> 
> 
> 

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