1907791 - "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement" enabled even if opting out of “Firefox Data Collection and Use”

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Description

[claesh]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.3

Steps to reproduce:

Main Menu > Settings > Privacy & Security > Website Advertising Preferences > Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement is enabled by default.

Actual results:

Main Menu > Settings > Privacy & Security > Website Advertising Preferences > Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement is enabled by default.

Expected results:

Main Menu > Settings > Privacy & Security > Website Advertising Preferences > Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement should not be enabled by default.

I have opted out of all "Firefox Data Collection and Use" because I don't want to be part of Mozillas experiments and/or studies. This is a Mozilla experiment and/or study and as such should be opt-in: "Our hope is that if we develop a good attribution solution" (link: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution)

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Messaging System' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Andrew McCreight [:mccr8]]

I'll go ahead and de-dupe this. The summary is similar to the other bug, but looking at comment 0, it sounds like this is specifically about being included in this when they already opted out of "Firefox Data Collection and Use" settings.

Comment 4

[Birgit Edel]

Since the anti-feature violates user choice in each of the categories:

1. experimental
2. telemetry
3. tracking
4. persistent storage

.. It must also never be active if already opted out by means of a policy covering any of the applicable categories, including:

1. DisableFirefoxStudies=true
2. DisableTelemetry=true
3. EnableTrackingProtection=*
4. Cookies=reject-tracker*

So even if regrettably the Mozilla Logo and what it once stood for was not enough to determine an appropriate default status..
It still is not exclusively the "Firefox Data Collection" checkbox that needs to be consulted to determine whether this new thing should be sneaked in with "Opt-Out" behavior.

Comment 5

[Brian Grinstead [:bgrins]]

Confirming that if you've disabled telemetry then the PPA prototype is automatically disabled. This was unfortunately unclear due to a UI bug in about:preferences that's now been fixed in Bug 1908312 (which can now be seen in Nightly and will also get uplifted to release).