> Telemetry data is stored locally by default. As long as the relevant options in the settings' UI are unchecked, or datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled is set to false in about:config, this data won't be sent. <https://medium.com/georg-fritzsche/data-preference-changes-i...>
There's likely to still be some non-telemetry chatter, like checking for available Firefox/plugin updates etc.
If there is one thing we should have learned over the past decade, it should be that if the data is collected, it will be sent.
I followed the argument and I understand what you are saying. What I am saying is that it was not that long ago that FF decided to disable plugins remotely ( I think we even discussed it on HN[1]). What makes you think they won't one day push an update to just upload that local data?
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7k3r9u/mozilla_is_...
> Telemetry data is stored locally by default. As long as the relevant options in the settings' UI are unchecked, or datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled is set to false in about:config, this data won't be sent. <https://medium.com/georg-fritzsche/data-preference-changes-i...>
There's likely to still be some non-telemetry chatter, like checking for available Firefox/plugin updates etc.