Open birdsarah opened 5 years ago
ping @crankycoder @mlopatka
Actually, we only record Telemetry for enabled add-ons. This was a decision made back when we developed Unified Telemetry in 2016.
In other words, if you have add-ons that are installed but disabled, they are not included in your Telemetry ping. You can see this by looking at your own about:telemetry
. The fields app_disabled
and user_disabled
are included in Telemetry because they are part of the standard add-on fields that get pulled from the Add-ons Manager, but if you look at our collected data they are always False
.
@dzeber well... TIL. Actually, wow this implies that from a (Longitudinal) Telemetry standpoint disabling is equivalent to an uninstall.
@mlopatka That's right, and this occurs in the raw pings, meaning that all of our data infrastructure built on top uses the same assumption. If you're interested, we can chat offline about the background for this decision and ideas that have been floated to capture disabling.
We should add that definition to the docs.