1594876 - Pocket stories on newtab based on region

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

Right now pocket stories show up in new tab based on your regions AND locale.

So if you're CA region and en browser, you see stories, or if you're DE region and de browser, you also see stories.

If you are DE region but download an English browser, you do not see stories.

Do we want to change this to be purely language based decision on if you see stories or not?

Comment 1

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

A huge consideration for this would be a significant population outside of the US using en-US browsers all of a sudden seeing pocket stories. Probably not what we're trying to do with this change.

I'm actually tempted to close this because of that, but I'll let this go to triage and we can discuss.

Comment 2

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

One thing we can do is open up the enabled region locales a bit more, though.

Example, if I'm in an enabled region and locale, even if they don't match "CA" and "de" I can probably safely see pocket stories.

What we cannot do, enable stories for all en-US browsers.

Comment 3

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

I'm considering this logic:

        const dsEnablementLocales = ["en-CA", "en-GB", "en-US", "de", "de-DE", "de-AT", "de-CH"];
        const dsEnablementRegions = ["US", "CA", "DE"];

        // Verify that the current geo & locale combination is enabled
        const isEnabled =
          dsEnablementRegions.includes(geo) && dsEnablementLocales.includes(locale);