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Can you rephrase those questions?<br>
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I think there is one dimension here that you didn't call out
explicitly:<br>
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Firefox should have one cache and update algorithm for geo-locating
users.<br>
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And there's a ton of other questions where we expose that
geo-location to mozilla services, and make decisions based upon
those.<br>
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I think the first conversation is simple. Obviously yes.<br>
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The second question is a actually an individual conversation for
each use-case. It's not obvious that "we're doing it once, we can do
it as often as we want to" is the right way to go about it.<br>
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And then there's the question on whether this is accessible to
consumers outside of the mozilla.org privacy domain.<br>
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Can you elaborate on that?<br>
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Axel<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/3/15 8:18 PM, Gregg Lind wrote:<br>
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(not yet a bug, becauase I am not sure where this fits!)<br>
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<b>Should we store true geo (country level) somewhere in Firefox?</b><br>
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1. We are starting to deploy services (and services integrations)
both by locale and by geographic entity. For example, Feature X
is GEO-US only, but supports many languages.<br>
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Currently, at least these services generate and use user geo
Country Codes.<br>
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- <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="about:newtab">about:newtab</a><br>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="about:home">about:home</a><br>
- (Heartbeat First Impressions)<br>
- (others)<br>
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2. They all calculate the code the same way (using
mozilla/GeoDude). <br>
3. They cache the data at different intervals.<br>
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Issues:<br>
- the caching is different times / schedules. User 'country' can
be inconsistent between services inside Firefox.<br>
- Our server gets hit more often than it should, as O(Users *
Services), rather than O(Users). <br>
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Some expected complaints (and answers):<br>
1. storing GEO potentially exposes user info. Claim / Ans:
Right now sites are doing this by IP already.<br>
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