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On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 11:35:38 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> As for "getting rid of Firefox and Thunderbird," you can do that. Or you
> could just go to the Security settings and turn telemetry off.

I don't have Thunderbird on the Fedora box but on Ubuntu telemetry is 
disabled in the build and the checkbox is grayed out. The crash report 
checkbox is unchecked. 

"Allow Thunderbird to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla
Data reporting is disabled for this build configuration

Allow Thunderbird to send backlogged crash reports on your behalf"