Program Management/Programs/Telemetry/Improve Opt-in

Goal

The current Telemetry opt-in rates do not provide enough data to be useful. In general, Telemetry is only useful if users are providing feedback.

Release channel

Current:
Goal: 10%+

Nightly (dev) channel

Current: ~2%
Goal: 50%+

Tactics

The following are some tactics that may be used to increase the opt-in rate for Telemetry.

Change to opt-out policy

metrics pursuing opt-out policy - follow up with them to see how they're progressing Daniel for follow-up next week will require security review

Change opt-in ui

Issues with the current opt-in UI:

• UI may disappear quickly
• UI may be hidden in another tab

These issues are related to the prompt mechanism (used for know your rights message) not being designed to be used heavily.

Need to discuss UX goal.

Bugs:

• Replace opt-in UI bug 692861
• Current UI gets dismissed too easily bug 691951

Want to pursue a more aggressive opt-in UI for nightly. Suggestion in bug 683340 (incomplete and needs UX design). Another suggestion is to put a checkbox on the download page (like Chrome) but this has two notable drawbacks: Firefox is multiseat and this only addresses new downloads not updates.

Follow up with:

• UX
  • Brian Dils is engaged and looking at the current notification mechanism. Lawrence and Brian will sync up at the mobile work week (Oct. 17-21)
• frontend
  • Spoke with Dietrich and Chris Lee. Chris is prioritizing the feature from a product management perspective to allow for fx resources to work on the issues.

Increase publicity

Using the Mozilla blog (others?) promote Telemetry and request user help with improving the performance of Firefox.