On 3/5/25 03:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Tue Mar 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM GMT, Richmond wrote:
I looked at about:buildconfig for Firefox ESR on Debian, and it says it
is built from a Mozilla source:
Source
Built from
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr128/rev/f3783ad20bf40a11fb4b7ed088236c1a9f7be362
So won't it be doing the same thing? i.e. collecting the same
information?
Whether or not the data-gathering is enabled in the Debian builds (and
whether it's on by default in the sources), I don't know. I hope not.
But irrespectively, users of Debian's Firefox packages are not bound
by Mozilla's EULA.
I have no doubt its "on". About 7 weeks ago, the dump line from my
basement sump pump froze up. Burned up the pump motor and flooded my
basement about a foot deep. Went online and got a new pump from amazon
for a $50 bill. Flooded, couldn't get to the pit. Took 5 damned weeks
to drain down and get basement systems, who put in that $12,000 drainage
system 15 years ago, to get around to charging me $1700 to replace the
pump, would not use the one I had. Since then I can't see the weather
map of the tv station I was the Chief Engineer at for the last 18 years
of my working life, its all covered up by adv's from related service
companies. That flooding has cost me around 6G's so far as it wiped out
the water heater, a 25 foot upright freezer with over $1k of food in it
and my 3 year old clothes dryer. Out of warranty of course, motor ordered.
I gave my unlisted phone # to cvs so they could call me when a script
was ready, my phone exploded with spam and phishing calls the same day.
3 new calls on my answer box in the 12 minutes it took me to drive
home. You can rightly suspect I'm upset.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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- Louis D. Brandeis
