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<p>Garrafrauns, 18/Jan/2019 10:05</p>
<p>I think it would be helpful to transmit the enabled / disable
status in the daily update ping of Add-ons. A simple filter to
remove "disabled" Add-ons on the Statistic would me a god send
for developers.</p>
<p>Axel<br>
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<div id="mySignature"> <b class="myName"><a
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background-color:rgba(220,220,240,0.4); border-radius:3px;"> <b>Subject:</b>Counting
number of users while preserving privacy<br>
<b>From:</b>Eric Moore <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:emoore@fastmail.fm"><emoore@fastmail.fm></a><br>
<b>To:</b>Tb-planning <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tb-planning@mozilla.org"><tb-planning@mozilla.org></a> <br>
<b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, 1/16/2019, 05:31 05:31 GMT ST +0000
[Week 3]<br>
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cite="mid:82a4e657-dc52-d247-8496-9414c091b337@fastmail.fm"
id="mid_82a4e657_dc52_d247_8496_9414c091b337_fastmail_fm" class="
cite"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/776327/e0cf49b9b9976c5a/">https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/776327/e0cf49b9b9976c5a/</a>
(some useful background/history of the proposal)
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_Better_Counting">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_Better_Counting</a> (the
current proposal)
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Fedora appears to have spent a lot of thought about a new way to
count the number of their installations that does a much better
job of preserving privacy, and makes it hard for the data it
returns to be misused. It would avoid using a unique id or the ip
address. It includes a VARIANT_ID (an example would be
"Workstation Edition"). In our case the "count me" variable might
have a very low cap such as 6 (implying 6 weeks or older) to
minimize the risk of uniqueness.
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Could something similar be done in Thunderbird when it requests
data from one of the Thunderbird servers?
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We don't appear to have reliable data on the number of Thunderbird
users, did they explicitly install any add-ons (boolean, ignore
whats bundled with Thunderbird), and what version they are using.
Something modeled on Fedora's approach might be a useful way to
get that while avoiding most users (such as myself) instinctive
wariness of telemetry such as the toolkit telemetry. If we do this
I suggest the community manager explain beforehand (preferably
before the first beta that supports it) how it works, how it deals
with privacy issues and how to opt-out, in a post on Planet
Thunderbird.
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