On 17/03/14 19:51, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> Currently telemetry is enabled by default on the nightly and aurora
> prerelease channels and is disabled by default on beta and release. We
> intend to change the Firefox privacy policy and enable telemetry by
> default on the beta channel.

Do you know where we can review the conversation around the original
decision, when telemetry first came along, to enable it by default on
nightly and aurora, but not on beta and release?

I seem to remember the argument being made that nightly and aurora users
should expect to be part of the development community, but that beta and
release users would not necessarily have that expectation. I think
there's merit in that view.

I'm sure the data would be very useful to us, but (obviously) that's not
the end of the discussion.

> In addition, we intend to clarify in the Firefox privacy policy that
> having telemetry enabled may also expose users to UI alterations such as
> experimental features or A/B variation testing. Data collected from
> experiments is covered by the Firefox usage statistics (telemetry)
> privacy policy. Users will have the ability to disable particular
> experiments via the Firefox addon manager or disable all experiments by
> turning off telemetry in preferences.

This would be fine by me on nightly and aurora.

Gerv
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