1425187 - Don't allow shield studies/experiments without any explanation in description what they do and without related Mozilla bug URL with more detailed information

Status: NEW

(Shield :: Shield Study, enhancement)

Description

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

STR1:
1. Open about:studies
2. See only
> Name: "pug-experience"
> Description: "My reality is different than yours"

STR2:
1. Open about:addons
2. Open "Extensions" tab
3. See only
> Name: "Looking Glass 1.0.3"
> Description: "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS."

There is no any information about what this study/experiment does in its description, like in past when all study/experiment had at least some information with Mozilla bug URL attached to see more detailed information.

I only found this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass
but it explains nothing at all.

Comment 1

[Navid Vahdat]

I'd like to vote for this bug. But somehow I can't.

Comment 2

[Adrian Aichner [:anaran]]

(In reply to Navid Vahdat from comment #1)
> I'd like to vote for this bug. But somehow I can't.

+1

Comment 3

[Matth78]

(In reply to Navid Vahdat from comment #1)
> I'd like to vote for this bug. But somehow I can't.

+1

Comment 4

[u607866]

Bug? it is NOT a bug - it is made intentionally, they just messed up and did not hide it well .. what is this? To any privacy concerned user in 21th century, this is a  HUGE step down - out IT department started to ban Firefox installations this morning :(

Comment 6

[Alice Wyman]

There's a new 1.0.4 version of the add-on that has more information in the description.  

See https://www.jeffersonscher.com/sumo/shield.php Looking Glass (take 2) for details.

Comment 7

[Alice Wyman]

(from comment #6)
> There's a new 1.0.4 version of the add-on

More on Looking Glass 1.0.4 here (including a screenshot): https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/pull/43

Comment 8

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

Because of repeated off-topic comments on this bug, I'm closing comments to people outside the editbugs group. 

Remember that your use of Bugzilla is subject to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html.

Comment 9

[Gingerbread Man]

> Don't allow shield studies/experiments […] without related Mozilla bug URL with more detailed information

According to bug 1424977, comment 21, this was introduced in bug 1423003. That's marked private, so that not even Mozilla employees can view it. Hiding security-sensitive reports from the general public is to be expected. But hiding promotional materials in the same way isn't something that should happen.