1368937 - Make search event opt-out

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

For it to be useful, we should make the search event opt-out:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/39d5cc0fda5e16c49a59d29d4ca186a5534cc88b/toolkit/components/telemetry/Events.yaml#2

Currently all event recording requires explicit activation/enabling by an add-on anyway, so making this opt-out poses no increased risk.

Comment 1

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

Attachment: Make search event opt-out

Make search event opt-out & and add David Zeber to the owners.

Comment 2

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

Comment on attachment 8872885 [details] [diff] [review]
Make search event opt-out

Review of attachment 8872885 [details] [diff] [review]:
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This looks technically ok: do you also need a data-review from someone else since we're making this opt-out?

Comment 3

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

Comment on attachment 8872885 [details] [diff] [review]
Make search event opt-out

Rebecca, i'm requesting data review for this smaller change to make the search event opt-out.

David Zeber signed up as the owner / monitoring user.
Events are currently mainly accessible through a re:dash table & custom analysis.

This is a low risk change as this does not directly enable event recording.
To enable this event, add-ons (say studies or experiments) still need to explicitly enable event recording for each session, as i outlined in [0] & [1].

For the search event to be really useful to any search experiments or studies, we need to make it opt-out though.
Otherwise we will only be able to get search event data from Telemetry opt-in users on release.

0: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14EcnTIz1jP5N3sst8IVYr99UjT-PsnjC3BaVKi6H7Is/edit#slide=id.g1f0eee911f_1_90
1: https://gecko.readthedocs.io/en/latest/toolkit/components/telemetry/telemetry/collection/events.html#the-api

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

This strikes me as type 2 data collection. 

For posterity, what dataset will these events be added to?  main_summary/longitudinal?

r+ given these details.

Comment 5

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

(In reply to Rebecca Weiss from comment #4)
> For posterity, what dataset will these events be added to? 
> main_summary/longitudinal?

The event data will show up in "main_summary" and the "events" dataset.

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/c18268020e6e
Make search event opt-out. r=Dexter data-review=rweiss

Comment 7

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c18268020e6e