“anonymous” ping¶
Note
This ping is no longer sent by Firefox or Fennec.
This ping is only for product survey purpose and will not track/associate client ID. It’s used to evaluate custom tab usage and see which app is using our custom tab.
Submission interval & triggers Since this ping is used to measure the feature usage, it should be sent each time the client app uses our custom tab.
Dataset: Only opt-in users will send out this ping. Since all other pings will collect client ID. We need this custom ping to not do that.
Size and volume: The size of submitted payload is small. And this custom ping should be deprecated after it’s released for 6 months.
Privacy: We won’t collect customer information so there’ll be no PI leak.
Data contents: The content of this ping will let us know which app is using our custom tab. Just like other feature usage measurement, we only need it for opt-in users (which consider as heavy users).
Structure:
{
"payload": {
"client": <string> // The package name of the caller app.
}
type: <string>, // "anonymous", "activation", "deletion", "saved-session", ...
id: <UUID>, // a UUID that identifies this ping
creationDate: <ISO date>, // the date the ping was generated
version: <number>, // the version of the ping format, currently 4
application: {
architecture: <string>, // build architecture, e.g. x86
buildId: <string>, // "20141126041045"
name: <string>, // "Firefox"
version: <string>, // "35.0"
displayVersion: <string>, // "35.0b3"
vendor: <string>, // "Mozilla"
platformVersion: <string>, // "35.0"
xpcomAbi: <string>, // e.g. "x86-msvc"
channel: <string>, // "beta"
},
}