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Add globally accessible A/B testing opt-out setting #36295
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Given that almost all A/B tests are going to be via P3A, I don't think it makes sense to have a separate toggle for this. |
most A/B product/design tests might not have any user data (will a red lion logo be more effective on shields than a blue lion logo?) in which case, there is no user data involved. |
I noted this in a DM to Hamed, but A/B test data (griffin state) is sent in crash reports too not just P3A. I think we are all on the same page that it'd be good to have a global opt out for A/B testing, so my understanding is that we can do this 3 ways:
EDIT: Noting that https://github.com/brave/reviews/issues/1507 also collects A/B experiment data outside of P3A. Given that we'd have to make sure if opt out is tied to P3A, it also disables this data collection in ads confirmations. Or explain that to truly opt out of A/B testing you have to also opt out of rewards/news. |
FWIW I just don't think we need to treat A/B tests as special cases of data collection. |
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Is this actually a duplicate of #15711 ? It seems in there we had consensus to add a new toggle for opting out of "staged roll-outs, feature testing and user studies" which is even more comprehensive than this issue, which is just to opt out of user studies without actually removing the ability to get new griffin variations. |
Yeah, that one is a full-on "no griffin for me" toggle. If we add a |
Preferably under the Privacy and Security setting, along with P3A and the ping setting
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