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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by comex on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @07:58PM (#15077353)
> There used to be a time when beta software was a thing. Prompt the users to become testers for your beta software.

Firefox already has opt-in telemetry, and Firefox already has a beta channel. It's unclear to me how it would help to tie telemetry to the beta channel; that would just make the existing problems (not enough data, and biased data) even worse, since there are probably far more users willing to share telemetry data than to use beta software.

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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by pishpash on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @11:06PM (#15078230)
In context, that might mean if there has to be some opt-out situation then opt-out for the beta channel might be slightly more acceptable.
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