> So, the question can be rephrased as "is the fact that Firefox has been logging all users' entire browsing history despite the fact that the user has not chosen to set up a Firefox account going to be disclosed?"
Chill out, this preference only determines what is logged locally (never sent to the server). It's a debugging tool.
Look, at this point it’s not the user’s responsibility to “chill out”. It’s very much Firefox’s responsibility to try to repair their reputation by:
1. being completely transparent about all the mechanisms that data or code can be pushed to or pulled by the browser, or pushed from or pulled from the browser; and
2. having a toggle for all of them, yes every single one, in Privacy & Security.
Chill out, this preference only determines what is logged locally (never sent to the server). It's a debugging tool.
Sources: - https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compone... - https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/services/common...