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Could you point out the exact post in which I've insulted you or anybody else, or called anybody a liar, please?

Let's go back to my first post: See, that's exactly what your picture above shows. Telemetry button not checked, FHR checked so I'd like you to tell me what I lied about. I'm really not sure what you're arguing against anymore; I've tried to be helpful because there were people on the thread...

It's not done without the user consent, the FHR is not enabled until you click on the "Choose What I Share" button as I've shown above that brings you directly to this page. Every fresh Firefox installation goes through that and it's been enabled since the introduction of telemetry. Shield...

To track a user you need to correlate that id with something that identifies that user, such as an IP address, e-mail or some other privacy-sensitive data. Nothing of that sort is gathered so the only one who can track anybody is you, because you're the only one who knows which telemetry ID your...

about:telemetry contains the telemetry data stored in the browser, that doesn't mean it has been sent. If you have never opted in into extended telemetry then that data was never sent. FHR is opt-in, it's not on by default. When you first start Firefox on a fresh installation you're presented...

There's an easier way to disable the maintenance service: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-mozilla-maintenance-service The practical effect of turning it of (or removing it) is that Windows will popup the UAC prompt when updating Firefox since background updates will be disabled. That...

Nope. That mentions a study that hasn't even started, not even on Firefox nightly, let alone on release, see the relevant bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1386566 Furthermore the only current motivation for it is to figure out how many sites are still using Flash so that we...

No, extended telemetry is opt-in and now off-by-default on release versions, FHR is opt-out.

Extended telemetry is opt-in (in fact starting from Firefox 56 it's off by default IIRC and cannot be enabled unless you edit the prefs by hand), FHR is opt-out. FHR contains a very small fraction of the information contained in telemetry and it's used exclusively for diagnosing stability...

I am the author of the pingsender executable and I'd like to shed some light on it since there seems to be quite a few misconceptions. First of all the pingsender doesn't send any data that Firefox wouldn't normally send. It's just a minimalist tool that can be used to relay telemetry data when...