Question: Are co-installations for "enabled" addons or all addons installed?

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Question: Are co-installations for "enabled" addons or all addons installed? #50

Open birdsarah opened 5 years ago

birdsarah commented 5 years ago

We should add that definition to the docs.

birdsarah commented 5 years ago

ping @crankycoder @mlopatka

mlopatka commented 5 years ago

enabled only https://github.com/mozilla/python_mozetl/blob/4bd8ceed909ae779826c383cbf7659b5dbf5869b/mozetl/taar/taar_lite_guidguid.py#L62

dzeber commented 5 years ago

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.

mlopatka commented 5 years ago

@dzeber well... TIL. Actually, wow this implies that from a (Longitudinal) Telemetry standpoint disabling is equivalent to an uninstall.

dzeber commented 5 years ago

@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.