1782179 - The telemetry pings for ads from a page reached by alt+enter are listed as 'unknown' SAP

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1788088

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P3)

Description

[Cristian Baica [:cbaica], Release Desktop QA]

Found in

• Fx104.0b3

Affected versions

• Fx 104.0b3
• Fx 105.0a1
• Fx 103.0

Preconditions

• Have the browser.search.region set to US.
• Have the search bar added.

Affected platforms

• Windows 10
• Ubuntu 20.04
• macOS

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch Firefox.
2. Open any random page.
3. With that page in the foreground, in the search bar, write a term that would generate ads.
4. Use alt+enter to submit the result and check that on the newly open tab there are ads.
5. Go to about:telemetry -> Raw JSON -> Raw Data and search for 'withads.searchbar' telemetry ping.

Expected result

• The 'withads' ping for the performed search is found.

Actual result

• There is no 'withads.searchbar' telemetry ping registered.

Regression range

• I have managed to reproduce the issue all the way back to Firefox 87. Looks like the issue is existent since the implementation of withads SAP.

Additional notes

• The issue occurs for all search engines where we track ads (Google, Bing and Duckduckgo).
• 'adclick' pings from the resulting page also have the SAP as unknown.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Not a security bug.