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Disable telemetry for "distributions" by default #2741

Closed pocmo closed 2 years ago

pocmo commented 6 years ago

Firefox for Android has a complex way to be customized by partners via Distribution files: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Distribution_Files

Eventually we may want to have something similar in Focus. But we want to do some things differently this time. And for now we only need a way to control whether telemetry is enabled by default.

in Firefox for Android distributions can be: Baked into the APK, downloaded after installation (google play referrer) or loaded from a system path. All those have different advantages/disadvantages.

What we want to do with Focus is: The device manufacturer sets a specific read-only system property in the system image from which we can read the distribution id. At a later time we will use this ID to download a distribution file. For now we are just using the existence of the property as an indicator that we are running on a partner device.

The name of the property will depend on the package name:

ro.<package name>.distribution.id

ro.org.mozilla.focus.distribution.id
ro.org.mozilla.klar.distribution.id

For now: Whenever this property exists we disable telemetry by default (Not overriding the user choice though). At a later time we will download the matching distribution which will contain customizations options like disabling telemetry.

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