Add telemetry to determine what portion of product pages are opened in-browser versus being handled by app link
Categories
(Firefox for Android :: App Links, enhancement, P2)
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| firefox118 | --- | wontfix |
| firefox119 | --- | wontfix |
| firefox120 | --- | wontfix |
| firefox121 | --- | fix-optional |
| firefox122 | --- | affected |
People
(Reporter: jmahon, Unassigned)
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(Whiteboard: [fxdroid] [fakespot-android-mvp])
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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What would we do with this information?
Opening links in apps is controlled by an opt-in Firefox setting. Do we have telemetry for how many users opt into the setting? That would give us an upper bound on the number of users opening shopping links in native apps. Maybe we could add settings for each app?
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Comment 2•2 years ago
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That would give us an upper bound on the number of users opening shopping links in native apps.
That's actually not entirely the case - consider clicking product links from any other app (Google Search, Instagram, Youtube) - the Android OS would route them based on system deep link default choices. Shopping apps can 'claim' their http URI as a deep link, and in that case, the user never even interfaces with Firefox. So there are actually two potentially impacted populations here: as you describe, folks who click through to a product page from inside the Firefox app (and whom have "open in app" enabled), but additionally, folks who open product pages from non-Firefox apps.
Now, admittedly, that may be a problem we can't solve, but this ticket essentially just exists to remind us that there are predictable reasons that product page views might be less common than we anticipate compared to on Desktop, so I figured I'd call that out for the record.
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