Test Pilot/Tracking Protection

Overview

This page has information related to the Tracking Protection add-on set to deploy from Test Pilot in 2016H2.

Lightweight experimenting solely around breakage. Use it to either advance TP in normal mode (uncertain) at in parallel improve the TP experience in PBM. Let’s use all the data to isolate the problems and deploy our first fixes. Based on Disconnect’s experience, we expect that will be Google Analytics. Let’s get the data before, make our first fix, and the get data reports after. BONUS: We can have the user tell us if our fixes made a difference. (i.e. are they still broken). Breakage will be highly subjective and need to be human reviewed. (I.e. ad breakage may be fine, login breakage may be a deal-killer)

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History

There is a Tracking Protection feature in Firefox. Some of the research and work from that feature is listed below and will help inform some of the decisions here.

• Original Tracking Protection Wiki https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tracking_protection
• Bug 1101005 - tracking bug for tracking protection breakages.
• Firefox User Research Private Browsing and Tracking Protection Report - September 2015.

Team

• Engineering: Luke Crouch
• UX: Aislinn Grigas
• Product Management: John Gruen
• Program Management: Cory Price

Code

https://github.com/mozilla/blok

Communication

• IRC: #txp
• Public meeting: Mondays at 11:30am PST Vidyo: TestPilot
• Meeting Notes: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/tracking-protection-coordination