Despite my having opted out of "Thunderbird Data Collection" (Options/Thunderbird Data Collection and Use/Uncheck both "Allow
Thunderbird to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" and
"Allow Thunderbird to send backlooged crashreports on your behalf")
I notice that the program keeps archiving datareporting in this folder:
"C:\Users\Computer User\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\(my profile name).default\datareporting\archived\2021-02"
Worse yet, it doesn't seem to ever delete any of the JSONLZ4 files so
that the folder just gets bigger and bigger.
Can anybody tell me why this is happening and how to stop Thunderbird
from doing this?
TIA
John C. wrote:
Despite my having opted out of "Thunderbird Data Collection"Bug 1242652 - The size of the folder(ProfD\datareporting\archived) is
(Options/Thunderbird Data Collection and Use/Uncheck both "Allow
Thunderbird to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" and
"Allow Thunderbird to send backlooged crashreports on your behalf")
I notice that the program keeps archiving datareporting in this folder:
"C:\Users\Computer User\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\(my profile
name).default\datareporting\archived\2021-02"
Worse yet, it doesn't seem to ever delete any of the JSONLZ4 files so
that the folder just gets bigger and bigger.
Can anybody tell me why this is happening and how to stop Thunderbird
from doing this?
TIA
growing unlimited
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242652
Closed: "The archives are kept for a maximum of 180 days or 120MB, by design."
(Nightly/Inbound) the 'datareporting' folder grows too much •
mozillaZine Forums
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2986235 user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled", false); seems to control
the archive folder.
How to disable the Firefox Saved Telemetry Pings and archive folder -
gHacks Tech News https://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/09/how-to-disable-the-firefox-saved-telemetry-pings-and-archive-folder/
"The preference toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled defines whether local archiving of telemetry pings is enabled or not. The preference depends
on toolkit.telemetry.unified and works only if unified is turned on."
I set toolkit.telemetry.unified to false - no new files.
John C. wrote:
Despite my having opted out of "Thunderbird Data Collection"Bug 1242652 - The size of the folder(ProfD\datareporting\archived) is
(Options/Thunderbird Data Collection and Use/Uncheck both "Allow
Thunderbird to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" and
"Allow Thunderbird to send backlooged crashreports on your behalf")
I notice that the program keeps archiving datareporting in this folder:
"C:\Users\Computer User\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\(my profile
name).default\datareporting\archived\2021-02"
Worse yet, it doesn't seem to ever delete any of the JSONLZ4 files so
that the folder just gets bigger and bigger.
Can anybody tell me why this is happening and how to stop Thunderbird
from doing this?
TIA
growing unlimited
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242652
Closed: "The archives are kept for a maximum of 180 days or 120MB, by design."
(Nightly/Inbound) the 'datareporting' folder grows too much •
mozillaZine Forums
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2986235 user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled", false); seems to control
the archive folder.
How to disable the Firefox Saved Telemetry Pings and archive folder -
gHacks Tech News https://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/09/how-to-disable-the-firefox-saved-telemetry-pings-and-archive-folder/
"The preference toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled defines whether local archiving of telemetry pings is enabled or not. The preference depends
on toolkit.telemetry.unified and works only if unified is turned on."
I set toolkit.telemetry.unified to false - no new files.
John C. wrote:
Despite my having opted out of "Thunderbird Data Collection"Bug 1242652 - The size of the folder(ProfD\datareporting\archived) is
(Options/Thunderbird Data Collection and Use/Uncheck both "Allow
Thunderbird to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" and
"Allow Thunderbird to send backlooged crashreports on your behalf")
I notice that the program keeps archiving datareporting in this folder:
"C:\Users\Computer User\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\(my profile
name).default\datareporting\archived\2021-02"
Worse yet, it doesn't seem to ever delete any of the JSONLZ4 files so
that the folder just gets bigger and bigger.
Can anybody tell me why this is happening and how to stop Thunderbird
from doing this?
TIA
growing unlimited
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242652
Closed: "The archives are kept for a maximum of 180 days or 120MB, by design."
(Nightly/Inbound) the 'datareporting' folder grows too much •
mozillaZine Forums
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2986235 user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled", false); seems to control
the archive folder.
How to disable the Firefox Saved Telemetry Pings and archive folder -
gHacks Tech News https://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/09/how-to-disable-the-firefox-saved-telemetry-pings-and-archive-folder/
"The preference toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled defines whether local archiving of telemetry pings is enabled or not. The preference depends
on toolkit.telemetry.unified and works only if unified is turned on."
I set toolkit.telemetry.unified to false - no new files.
On 3/1/2021 1:09 AM, Andrei Z. wrote:
I set toolkit.telemetry.unified to false - no new files.
"toolkit.telemetry.enabled" is locked. Does this matter if the rest of
the config options according to the ghacks article is set to its
recommended settings?
obelar wrote:
On 3/1/2021 1:09 AM, Andrei Z. wrote:
Menu -> Help -> Troubleshooting Information -> about:telemetryI set toolkit.telemetry.unified to false - no new files.
"toolkit.telemetry.enabled" is locked. Does this matter if the rest
of the config options according to the ghacks article is set to its
recommended settings?
....
"Telemetry is collecting release data and upload is disabled."
....
On 3/10/21 1:52 PM, Andrei Z. wrote:....
obelar wrote:
On 3/1/2021 1:09 AM, Andrei Z. wrote:
Really disappointed that I couldn't find any data that would identify me as the user.
Would that be the "clientId 6a94f88c-7109-44f7-9f08-d0fab23ece97"?
WaltS48 wrote:
On 3/10/21 1:52 PM, Andrei Z. wrote:....
obelar wrote:
On 3/1/2021 1:09 AM, Andrei Z. wrote:
Really disappointed that I couldn't find any data that would identify
me as the user.
Would that be the "clientId 6a94f88c-7109-44f7-9f08-d0fab23ece97"?
Of course not. They are the good guys rooting for privacy and aim at protecting your private information. There is no way this really
unique id attached to crash reports and pings among other things can
be used to identify a single user. For sure!
FRG
WaltS48 wrote:
On 3/10/21 1:52 PM, Andrei Z. wrote:....
obelar wrote:
On 3/1/2021 1:09 AM, Andrei Z. wrote:
Really disappointed that I couldn't find any data that would identify
me as the user.
Would that be the "clientId 6a94f88c-7109-44f7-9f08-d0fab23ece97"?
Of course not. They are the good guys rooting for privacy and aim at protecting your private information. There is no way this really unique
id attached to crash reports and pings among other things can be used to identify a single user. For sure!
FRG
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
WaltS48 wrote:
On 3/10/21 1:52 PM, Andrei Z. wrote:....
obelar wrote:
On 3/1/2021 1:09 AM, Andrei Z. wrote:
Really disappointed that I couldn't find any data that would identify me as >>> the user.
Would that be the "clientId 6a94f88c-7109-44f7-9f08-d0fab23ece97"?
Of course not. They are the good guys rooting for privacy and aim at
protecting your private information. There is no way this really unique id >> attached to crash reports and pings among other things can be used to
identify a single user. For sure!
FRG
Telemetry collection and deletion - Firefox Help https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid
Telemetry — Firefox Source Docs documentation https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/telemetry/
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/telemetry/data/common-ping.html
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