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0 pointsxcdzvyn4y ago0 comments

I don't think that's the case; the telemetry is part of the installer, not the installed binary (that the tarball would contain)

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pabs34y ago

The article says the download id is transmitted to Mozilla on first run, so it must be part of the installed binary?

However, the article does say the Mozilla FTP site doesn't have the download id.

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0 pointsxcdzvyn4y ago0 comments

I don't think that's the case; the telemetry is part of the installer, not the installed binary (that the tarball would contain)

pabs34y ago

The article says the download id is transmitted to Mozilla on first run, so it must be part of the installed binary?

However, the article does say the Mozilla FTP site doesn't have the download id.

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