The code you cited just says that users with locale “en-US” are enrolled in the “offline” mode.
Basically:
locale = “en-US” => “offline” => opt-out
locale != “en-US” => “opt-in” with all possible dark patterns to trick the user into accepting it: user has to click the small “Not now” text which does not look like a button on the top right corner to disable Suggest.
To summarize, the “offline” / “online” Suggest Scenario have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Firefox sends data to Mozilla or not, it only defines if the Suggest feature is opt-in or opt-out.
Is this naming extremely confusing? Absolutely! But at this point it’s clear that Mozilla has done everything possible to mislead users about what their “suggestions” really are.
So please, stop spreading misinformation while claiming that people trying to bring awareness about this awful “feature” are the ones providing false information. A code comment is not proof, your completely wrong interpretation of it even less so. If you don’t agree, please link to the relevant source code which would contradict the one I’ve linked to.
The only different between “online” and “offline” is that in “offline” mode what you type in your URL bar is not included in the telemetry sent after you have selected a suggestion.
But this changes absolutely nothing to what is sent to the Suggest API endpoint when you type in your URL bar.
I’ve repeatedly provided clear evidence of what I said, you just keep mentioning a random code comment and interpreting it in a way which completely contradicts the actual code and what countless people have observed.
So at the risk of repeating myself:
A code comment does not prove anything.
Your completely wrong interpretation of it even less so.
And how would that support your claim that this post is:
The relevant parts from this code comment about the “offline” mode are:
Which correspond to the code I’ve already linked to.
case "offline": enabled = true; defaults.setBoolPref("quicksuggest.shouldShowOnboardingDialog", false); defaults.setBoolPref("suggest.quicksuggest", true); defaults.setBoolPref("suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored", true); break;The code you cited just says that users with locale “en-US” are enrolled in the “offline” mode.
Basically:
To summarize, the “offline” / “online” Suggest Scenario have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Firefox sends data to Mozilla or not, it only defines if the Suggest feature is opt-in or opt-out. Is this naming extremely confusing? Absolutely! But at this point it’s clear that Mozilla has done everything possible to mislead users about what their “suggestions” really are.
So please, stop spreading misinformation while claiming that people trying to bring awareness about this awful “feature” are the ones providing false information. A code comment is not proof, your completely wrong interpretation of it even less so. If you don’t agree, please link to the relevant source code which would contradict the one I’ve linked to.
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Telemetry and Suggest are two completely separate things.
The only different between “online” and “offline” is that in “offline” mode what you type in your URL bar is not included in the telemetry sent after you have selected a suggestion. But this changes absolutely nothing to what is sent to the Suggest API endpoint when you type in your URL bar.
I’ve repeatedly provided clear evidence of what I said, you just keep mentioning a random code comment and interpreting it in a way which completely contradicts the actual code and what countless people have observed. So at the risk of repeating myself:
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