Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way

Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by Vinnl on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:54PM (#15074829)

The thing is, I think, that the users that opt-in to the collection aren't "a random sample", but rather "a sample of users biased towards certain profiles".

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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by yorwba on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:00PM (#15074877)

And how did they find that out?

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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by Vinnl on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @06:07PM (#15076792)

In part, AFAIA (but I've only limited statistical training) this is a well known feature of voluntary datasets. But IIRC they've also done user studies and compared those.

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