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Re:Firefox Voice by joecool1029 on Sunday August 09, 2020 @02:25PM (#24101707)
Thanks for clarification on #1. It confirms what I was most concerned about and that was that my phone was leaking private info to Mozilla. On Linux I don't build the crash reporter, any crashes I used to backtrace and open with my distro first before moving to upstream. On mobile, Fennic had a specific option to turn off crash reporter, Fenix only has the two 'data sharing' sections.

I included the singular prior message posted the day before in my last comment on HN. I removed the part that was baseless in my second response which is what you saw.

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Re:Firefox Voice by nl8ghddbnw on Sunday August 09, 2020 @03:39PM (#24102246)
@ #1: To be clear, I am not a Mozilla employee. So do not take this as a confirmation, I am just quoting the documentation.

@ "Fenix only has the two 'data sharing' sections." - You can always untick the checkbox in the crash reporter, see [1]: The data choice in the settings was removed in [2] and tickboxes were added at the same time in [3]. Fenix will also remember you crash reporting choice in the following crashes, you can test this yourself using - warning, this will crash your browser - about:crashparent.

Thanks for including your previous message: I think the ban was primarily based on your first message, but that is just my personal opinion. Hopefully you get more details from your report.

Sources:

[1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4037709/55157721-c...

[2] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/1264

[3] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/1265

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