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| == Current Status ==
| | #REDIRECT [[Tiles#Technical_Details]] |
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| Firefox sends the following information about [[Tiles|tiles]] to Mozilla:
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| On viewing the new-tab page, blocking a tile, moving, clicking a tile or an associated sponsored link, pinning or unpinning a tile, the following information is sent:
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| === History tiles ===
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| * Position of the tile (ex: 0-8 for a user with 8 visible tiles )
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| * Pin status of the tile (ex: pinned = true )
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| * Tile frecency factor (ex: int(Frecency/1000))
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| * '''No''' tile ID or URL information is sent for history tiles
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| === Directory, Suggested, Enhanced tiles ===
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| The information for History tiles, plus:
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| * The tile ID (which encodes the tile destination)
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| * A signal (empty string; no URL) if the tile is enhanced
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| === Other Details ===
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| A previous version of these patches would send the full URL for enhanced tiles. This URL submission has been removed.
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| The data is sent via a SSL connection with Key-pinning (as of {{bug|1030135}}) to mozilla cloud services. No extra tracking cookies are set by the server for this ping.
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| When the data is received, the IP address is geo-encoded: the IP address is not stored on Mozilla’s servers.
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| Descriptions for the payload schemas for the pings can be found [https://github.com/oyiptong/onyx/blob/master/README.md here]
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| == Prospecting Future Tile Partners ==
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| In addition to continuous data collection required for partners, we also want to collect information about current user history tiles, to provide business guidance about which sites are most valuable to our users for picking both Directory and Enhanced Tiles.
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| Proposal:
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| * Run a limited-time experiment in the beta channel to collect information about the top history site information.
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| * Rather than sending any URLs, prepare in advance a potential list of top sites or partners as a whitelist of sites. Only send information about tiles on this whitelist, and only send the TLD+2, not the full URL. This will avoid sending many kinds of personal URLs.
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| This prospecting experiment is tracked in {{bug|1062708}}
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