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gcb opened this issue Mar 7, 2025 · 0 comments
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privacy, beacons on mdn not respecting browser settings #175

gcb opened this issue Mar 7, 2025 · 0 comments

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gcb commented Mar 7, 2025

There are many examples, listing only one as I think this is a misconfigured flag.

For example, if you visit any MDN page with firefox, and have about:config: toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRun: false, you will still see beacons such as

POST https://developer.mozilla.org/submit/mdn-yari/action/1/some_hash
{
	"client_info": {
		"app_build": "Unknown",
		"app_channel": "prod",
		"app_display_version": "Unknown",
		"architecture": "Unknown",
		"client_id": "full pii hash (note, i'm in EU)",
		"first_run_date": "2024-10-12-00:00",
		"locale": "en-US",
		"os": "Linux",
		"os_version": "Unknown",
		"session_count": 14,
		"session_id": "fcdcaf66-f1ab-49ea-974d-cf24e4e8c613",
		"telemetry_sdk_build": "5.0.3"
	}
}
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@dipikabh dipikabh transferred this issue from mdn/content Mar 24, 2025
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