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by lifthrasiir 2607 days ago
It should be mentioned that Mozilla had once wrecked their reputation by allowing a corporate-supported study [1] (yeah, Mr. Robot one). It was a really bad PR disaster for Mozilla, and I think Mozilla has at least learned their lesson by not abusing the studies system in such way (as far as I know).

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-...
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philipwhiuk 2607 days ago
So they'll put it directly in Normandy instead of wrecking Studies?
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lifthrasiir 2607 days ago
Not sure, but Mozilla had taken another PR risk by sponsored contents to the Packet integration [1]. So we need to keep our eyes to Mozilla.

On wrecking Normandy, you can actually see all enabled recipes [2] and nothing seems smoky. It even seems that the hotfix (id=721) was used to unbreak Office 365, supporting the positive uses of this system. But I strongly agree that there should be more approachable list of them.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/24/update-on... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16229927)

[2] https://normandy.cdn.mozilla.net/api/v1/recipe/

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