diff --git a/mobile/android/app/mobile.js b/mobile/android/app/mobile.js
index 0dcad1b67c30..cf7b5c532bf7 100644
--- a/mobile/android/app/mobile.js
+++ b/mobile/android/app/mobile.js
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ pref("network.buffer.cache.count", 24);
 pref("network.buffer.cache.size",  16384);
 
 // predictive actions
+pref("network.seer.enabled", false);
 pref("network.seer.max-db-size", 2097152); // bytes
 pref("network.seer.preserve", 50); // percentage of seer data to keep when cleaning up
 
diff --git a/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js b/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js
index 8b8a2d3556bc..ddd42dfc655b 100644
--- a/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js
+++ b/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js
@@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ pref("network.dir.format", 2);
 pref("network.prefetch-next", true);
 
 // enables the predictive service
-pref("network.seer.enabled", true);
+pref("network.seer.enabled", false);
 pref("network.seer.enable-hover-on-ssl", false);
 pref("network.seer.page-degradation.day", 0);
 pref("network.seer.page-degradation.week", 5);
diff --git a/netwerk/test/unit/xpcshell.ini b/netwerk/test/unit/xpcshell.ini
index de3229af0c00..25b324dfbd7f 100644
--- a/netwerk/test/unit/xpcshell.ini
+++ b/netwerk/test/unit/xpcshell.ini
@@ -315,10 +315,7 @@ skip-if = os == "android"
 [test_ping_aboutnetworking.js]
 [test_referrer.js]
 [test_seer.js]
-# Android version detection w/in gecko does not work right on infra, so we just
-# disable this test on all android versions, even though it's enabled on 2.3+ in
-# the wild.
-skip-if = os == "android"
+skip-if = true
 [test_signature_extraction.js]
 run-if = os == "win"
 [test_udp_multicast.js]