On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Omega X <ask...@for.it> wrote: > Ok. But why is this opt-out? Current Firefox performance metrics like > Testpilot and Telemetry ask users to opt-in before it starts collecting and > transmitting data.
Presumably because opt-in statistics are significantly less representative of the general population than opt-out statistics, since the former biases heavily towards techies and enthusiasts. My impression is that this is the primary advantage of FHR over telemetry, the primary risk with respect to privacy, and the reason it's being communicated so deliberately. I'm not on the Metrics team though, so this is just my observation from the outside. Daniel can correct me if I'm wrong here. Cheers, bholley _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
