1543712 - Enable Origin Telemetry

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Privacy: Anti-Tracking, task, P2)

Description

[Gary Chen [:xeonchen]]

Turn pref privacy.trackingprotection.origin_telemetry.enabled on.

Comment 1

[Gary Chen [:xeonchen]]

Attachment: Bug 1543712 - Enable Origin Telemetry;

Comment 2

[Gary Chen [:xeonchen]]

This bug is intentionally to keep current state until we decide to land it.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

There's a r+ patch which didn't land and no activity in this bug for 2 weeks.
:xeonchen, could you have a look please?

Comment 4

[Gary Chen [:xeonchen]]

(In reply to Release mgmt bot [:sylvestre / :calixte] from comment #3)

There's a r+ patch which didn't land and no activity in this bug for 2 weeks.
:xeonchen, could you have a look please?

Please see comment 2.

Comment 5

[Ethan Tseng [:ethan]]

(In reply to Gary Chen [:xeonchen] from comment #2)

This bug is intentionally to keep current state until we decide to land it.

Gary, please remind me. Who will make the call to land this patch? When are we supposed to make that decision?

Comment 6

[Gary Chen [:xeonchen]]

(In reply to Ethan Tseng [:ethan] from comment #5)

Gary, please remind me. Who will make the call to land this patch?

I think it's :englehardt, we talked about this weeks ago.

When are we supposed to make that decision?

Leave this question to :englehardt.

Comment 7

[Steven Englehardt [:englehardt]]

I can follow-up here with a confirmation when we're ready to enable the Telemetry. Here are the blockers:

1. Finishing the platform work
2. Manual verification w/ Anthony
3. Release of blog post detailing that we'll enable this on Nightly

Ideally we will enable this in Nightly 69 while we still have time for bug fixes if some should arise. The platform work has to finish by ~June 14th to give QA enough time to test. The closer to the start of the 69 Nightly cycle we can land it, the better since it will give us more bake time.

Comment 8

[Ethan Tseng [:ethan]]

(In reply to Steven Englehardt [:englehardt] from comment #7)

I can follow-up here with a confirmation when we're ready to enable the Telemetry. Here are the blockers:

1. Finishing the platform work
2. Manual verification w/ Anthony
3. Release of blog post detailing that we'll enable this on Nightly

The platform work was already done.
We can land this bug to enable Origin Telemetry after the merge date, May 13.

Comment 9

[Ethan Tseng [:ethan]]

(In reply to Ethan Tseng [:ethan] from comment #8)

The platform work was already done.
We can land this bug to enable Origin Telemetry after the merge date, May 13.

Please be aware that the merge date is changed to May 20.

Comment 10

[Steven Englehardt [:englehardt]]

(In reply to Ethan Tseng [:ethan] from comment #9)

(In reply to Ethan Tseng [:ethan] from comment #8)

The platform work was already done.
We can land this bug to enable Origin Telemetry after the merge date, May 13.

Please be aware that the merge date is changed to May 20.

Thanks! I expect we'll have a blog post ready to go out on May 20th as well.

I'll see if Anthony has some time next week for a quick run of manual verification.

Comment 11

[Ethan Tseng [:ethan]]

Gary, please check with Steven to ensure we enable Origin Telemetry after the blog post being published. Thanks.

Comment 12

[Gary Chen [:xeonchen]]

(In reply to Steven Englehardt [:englehardt] from comment #10)

Thanks! I expect we'll have a blog post ready to go out on May 20th as well.

I'll see if Anthony has some time next week for a quick run of manual verification.

ni?englehardt to track this.

Comment 13

[Wesley Dawson [:whd]]

For manual verification, the following infrastructure is available:

GCS: gs://moz-fx-data-stage-data/telemetry-decoded-doctype_prio/${submission_date:-UNKNOWN}/${submission_hour:-UNKNOWN}/${document_namespace:-NONE}/${document_type:-NONE}/${document_version:-0}/output 
PubSub topic: projects/moz-fx-data-shar-nonprod-efed/topics/telemetry-decoded-doctype_prio

These are both currently empty but should be populated as data arrives.

Comment 14

[Steven Englehardt [:englehardt]]

The blog post that summarizes these changes was release today: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/06/06/next-steps-in-privacy-preserving-telemetry-with-prio/.

Anthony may have found another blocking bug related to the version string of the pings.

Comment 15

[Steven Englehardt [:englehardt]]

Gary, would you mind to update your patch to ifdef to Nightly only? I think we should be able to enable this soon.

Comment 16

[Steven Englehardt [:englehardt]]

Given that Bug 1561645 has landed, I think we're ready to enable this now (ifdef'ed to Nightly, as requested above).

Comment 17

[Gary Chen [:xeonchen]]

Patch updated for Nightly only :)

Comment 18

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/ed7ffab659da
Enable Origin Telemetry; r=Ehsan

Comment 19

[Stefan Hindli [:stefan_hindli]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ed7ffab659da

Comment 20

[jwms]

So is this on? Because the about:config pref in 79.0 is still set to off :/

Comment 21

[Steven Englehardt [:englehardt]]

(In reply to jwms from comment #20)

So is this on? Because the about:config pref in 79.0 is still set to off :/

This is only enabled in the Nightly channel. It will remain Nightly only until we have an independent party to run one of the servers. See https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/06/06/next-steps-in-privacy-preserving-telemetry-with-prio/ for more info.