1966382 - [meta] newtab Contextual Ads

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, enhancement)

Description

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

Because there are no contextual ads currently in inventory, we can only test that the ads IAB category format is sent to the ads server.

To test that the IAB ad category is sent to the ads server:

1. Set your region and locale to US or another region that can see ads.
2. Set "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.discoverystream.sections.contextualAds.enabled" to true
3. Set "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.discoverystream.sections.enabled" to true
4. Set "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.devtoolsEnabled" to true
5. Go to about:newtab#devtools
6. Refresh cache
7. Set system time to 1 hour into the future
8. Open the multi process browser toolbox. Watch the network tab.
9. Click "trigger system tick"

Expected:

You should see 2 requests going out to ads.mozilla.org, we only care about one of them. One is for topsites, the other for stories, we care about the stories one. From the list of calls there is no way to know which is which until you click on the request tab. So check the request tab for each of them, and you're looking for something like the attached screenshot:

Comment 2

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

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