I came across this: Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/03/07/whats-going-on-at-mozilla/#comment-3829490 Could somebody please explain the part in bold?
But those of us who turned it off still have it off. So it will be a concern for new users unaware of telemetry.
I'm not sure what that person is referring to, but telemetry as well as telemetry-related components (Health Report, Experiments, SelfSupport, ...), behaviors, preferences, and even defaults have changed over the years. There is some documentation here: https://gecko.readthedocs.org/en/latest/toolkit/components/telemetry/telemetry/index.html I'm not certain what that is built from, but I suspect it may be from what is in Mozilla Central. You can also look at the doc files for specific branches: https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/toolkit/components/telemetry/docs/ https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/telemetry/docs/ plus the source code of interest.
Thank you! The gecko link is most informative: https://gecko.readthedocs.org/en/latest/toolkit/components/telemetry/telemetry/preferences.html
