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Nah, it's an experiment/testing system that's configurable in settings. I don't remember whether it's opt-in or opt-out. It's usually used for things like user studies but I guess it is also used for hotfixes.

If it's opt-out I guess it's not "consent"? I recall opting into it, but I can't be sure they didn't change it.

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`app.normandy.enabled` has a default setting of `true`, at least on my machine, so yeah, it’s now opt-out.

And you have to go via about:config, which is a no-go for the majority of the users.

You need about:config for that flag, but that flag isn't the only way to turn off Normandy.

That pref doesn't matter. If you turn off the visible checkbox in settings, normandy turns off. This is true for many feature flags. You can try it yourself, I tested it - unchecking the box in settings disabled the hotfix in my user studies tab (all of them were marked as complete).

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