1476458 - Prevent expired sponsored stories from showing to users

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect, P1)

Description

[klong]

When a user launches Firefox for the first time in a few days or weeks, they can see sponsored content (spocs) for campaigns that ended long ago because the Pocket recommendations feed response hasn't had a chance to refresh before the first tab is rendered.

To prevent this, Pocket will include an `expiration_timestamp` with each spoc in the /v3/firefox/global-recs response, and would need that timestamp checked as part of the filtration logic when deciding whether a spoc is eligible to be shown.

Comment 1

[Gavin Suntop [:gvn] (they/them)]

Is it correct to assume that `expiration_timestamp` is the number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC?

Comment 2

[Gavin Suntop [:gvn] (they/them)]

Confirmed with kaiser on Slack.

Comment 3

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/pull/4549

Comment 4

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream

https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/commit/71c92b34b0e51dc147a7fa653880a2ee2298e7d9
Fix Bug 1476458 - Prevent expired sponsored stories from showing to users (#4549)

Comment 5

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/973e2824df96