1539257 - `about:telemetry` support for Origin Telemetry

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Chris H-C :chutten]

To support QA, we'll be needing a way to inspect Origin Telemetry contents on a running Firefox.

The usual way is via about:telemetry... so let's do that.

This bug is about using the existing plaintext snapshotting API Telemetry.getOriginSnapshot() to display a section in about:telemetry's "current ping" area called "Origin Telemetry".

This should come with explainer text to describe in as plain language as possible that these origins are only sent when encoded in such a way that we only get aggregated statistics out of it. (in short, it's a privacy-preserving mechanism of data collection).

Might be worth passing the draft in front of comms before we ship it. We wouldn't want a misinterpretation turning this into a "thing".

...maybe we could show the plaintext and encoded prioData structures one after the other? Might be illustrative.

Comment 1

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Attachment: Bug 1539257 - Show Origin Telemetry in about:telemetry r?janerik

Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

How urgent is this bug, given the conversion work happening in bug 1523741 (hopefully not far from the end)?

On a side note, there's a lot of hardcoding brand names in the strings (Mozilla, Firefox), and I'm not exactly sure we should be doing that.

Comment 3

[Ethan Tseng [:ethan]]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #2)

How urgent is this bug, given the conversion work happening in bug 1523741 (hopefully not far from the end)?

The project "Content Blocking measurement with Prio" is targeted at Fx 68.
From my understanding, this bug is part of the project. I'm not sure how critical this bug is for the feature, but it's necessary for QA feature testing.

Comment 4

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Attachment: Bug 1539257 - Show Origin Telemetry in about:telemetry l10n-r?flod r?janerik

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/382518bd8029
Show Origin Telemetry in about:telemetry l10n-r?flod r=janerik,flod

Comment 6

[Narcis Beleuzu [:NarcisB]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/382518bd8029

Comment 7

[Marcela (Please NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

Hi Chris!
Could you give me some clue how to verify this issue? What event or action do I have to execute to verify it?
I'm looking at about: telemetry, in the Current ping - Event section but I'm not sure what I should find

Comment 8

[Chris H-C :chutten]

You have to set a couple of prefs (which ones, I keep forgetting) to turn on the part of Content Blocking that uses Origin Telemetry, then find a web page that exercises Content Blocking.

It may be that Ciprian's test plan already verifies this bug as part of the wider "Content Blocking using Origin Telemetry" program, so maybe I can save you some work with a well-placed needinfo... (and if not, it'll give me time to find those prefs)

Comment 9

[Ciprian Georgiu, Desktop QA]

Hi Marcela!

We've already covered this bug through our test plan as Chris said, but only on Nightly 69. If you want to verify this on Beta 68 as well, you need to set the following prefs to true in about: config: privacy.trackingprotection.origin_telemetry.enabled, telemetry.origin_telemetry_test_mode.enabled. Please see more details here.

Comment 10

[Marcela (Please NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

I verified this issue in Beta 68 and works ok.
I changed this prefs to true privacy.trackingprotection.origin_telemetry.enabled, telemetry.origin_telemetry_test_mode.enabled.

Comment 11

[Marcela (Please NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

I’m not able to reproduce the issue. Based on this I will mark the bug as Verified.