Dear Maintainers, The current bookworm version 1:102.15.1-1~deb12u1 of Thunderbird still has opt-*out*, not opt-in, for telemetry. While we don't seem to have a formal Debian policy on this, it would be within the spirit of Debian to set this to opt-in, not opt-out.
We do have some warnings at https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues, but better that telemetry options are patched to be opt-in, not opt-out. This is what people would expect from Debian. The opt-out telemetry that I could find is this: ./python/mozbuild/mozbuild/test/test_telemetry_settings.py-135- ./python/mozbuild/mozbuild/test/test_telemetry_settings.py-136-def test_initialize_noop_when_telemetry_disabled_env(monkeypatch): ./python/mozbuild/mozbuild/test/test_telemetry_settings.py:137: monkeypatch.setenv("DISABLE_TELEMETRY", "1") ./python/mozbuild/mozbuild/test/test_telemetry_settings.py-138- with mock.patch("mach.telemetry.record_telemetry_settings") as record_mock: ./python/mozbuild/mozbuild/test/test_telemetry_settings.py-139- did_prompt = _initialize_telemetry(None, False) -- ./python/mach/mach/telemetry.py-100- ./python/mach/mach/telemetry.py-101-def is_telemetry_enabled(settings): ./python/mach/mach/telemetry.py:102: if os.environ.get("DISABLE_TELEMETRY") == "1": ./python/mach/mach/telemetry.py-103- return False ./python/mach/mach/telemetry.py-104- -- ./python/mach/mach/telemetry.py-289- state_dir = Path(state_dir) ./python/mach/mach/telemetry.py-290- ./python/mach/mach/telemetry.py:291: if os.environ.get("DISABLE_TELEMETRY") == "1": ./python/mach/mach/telemetry.py-292- return ./python/mach/mach/telemetry.py-293- So I propose the following patch: ================================================================================ --- python/mach/mach/telemetry.py.orig 2023-10-21 00:34:41.135764889 +0200 +++ python/mach/mach/telemetry.py 2023-10-21 01:05:01.073107778 +0200 def is_telemetry_enabled(settings): - if os.environ.get("DISABLE_TELEMETRY") == "1": + if os.environ.get("DISABLE_TELEMETRY") == "0": + return True + else: return False return settings.mach_telemetry.is_enabled ================================================================================ to switch from opt-out to opt-in. *Unless* the user has set DISABLE_TELEMETRY to 0, the value of settings.mach_telemetry.is_enabled will be 'False'. (Python experts might wish to leave the 'else' part blank, but making the alternative explicit is safer and more readable.) I haven't tested this, though ./python/mozbuild/mozbuild/test/test_telemetry_settings.py is presumably used for testing it, and the test might have to be toggled in order to pass with the ethically correct value: opt-in. Cheers Boud
