Privacy/Anti-Tracking/Interventions

Getting access to the Remote Settings admin interface

Since we already have a Remote Settings collection, getting access boils down to the following steps:

• Setup the Mozilla VPN and request access to the server using this Bugzilla template
• Ask an existing member of the url-classifier-skip-urls collection to get you added to the list of editors/reviewers

For a more comprehensive guide, including how to create your own collection, see https://remote-settings.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html.

Admin Interface

Remote Settings provides a stage environment as well as a production environment:

• Stage: https://settings-writer.stage.mozaws.net/v1/admin/
• Production: https://settings-writer.prod.mozaws.net/v1/admin/

Please test interventions on stage before pushing to production. You can use the Remote Settings DevTools to switch between them in your browser (see also the Remote Settings documentation).

Tracking Interventions

We have set up bug 1537702 to track active interventions. All interventions must have a corresponding bug that blocks this meta-bug.

Steps to create a new Intervention

• Turn on the Mozilla VPN
• Visit the stage or production admin interface (see above)
• TODO find the url-classifier-skip-urls collection
• TODO when skipping blocking, add an entry for both annotation and blocking, to ensure that it doesn't show up in the UI
• File a bug describing your intervention, blocking bug 1537702 (TODO, make a bug template here)
• TODO?

You can also see a screencast of these steps here.