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How would you figure this out without telemetry? A Web crawl could tell you how many PDF documents on the Web use forms, but it won't tell you often your users
by roca 5y ago
How would you figure this out without telemetry?
A Web crawl could tell you how many PDF documents on the Web use forms, but it won't tell you often your users encounter those documents --- many documents aren't on the public Web, and some documents will be encountered far more often than others.
- blondin 5y ago> How would you figure this out without telemetry? the way the world has done it forever... a survey? it is concerning. if Firefox is doing it, they are all doing it. i am not going to be opening PDFs in browsers. this is ridiculous.
- roca 5y agoA survey for this is going to be useless for getting unbiased data.
- charcircuit 5y agoA survey would be heavily biased. Telemetry will have much less bias (there is still some since people who disable telemetry have their usage ignored) With better data you can make improvements that help more actual users instead of just focusing on what vocal minorities think.
- tjoff 5y agoThe vast majority of questions like that are quite obvious. Now what you might miss is that in some country where special circumstances led to an unusual high use of a certain feature. But this is not that case. More importantly, even with telemetry. Is the JavaScript adding something or is it solely used for tracking? Is it appreciated by the users? Maybe 80% of input validation is so broken that they only serve to block legitimate input and waste cpu-cycles. More than telemetry you need common sense. It is not apparent how the telemetry influenced this in any way.