SPIKE: consider problems to data pipelines as a result of reduced user agent entropy in Google Chrome
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	Oct 8 2020, 4:49 PM

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Quantify the loss of entropy (uniqueness) in the user agent (and derivative) dimension(s).

Pipelines that we need to check:

geoeditors (using user agent to compute a transient fingerprint)
bot traffic classification (automata) and removal
ua parser precision for webrequest, event logging, etc.
browser stats
virtual pageviews

cc Research to raise awareness of entropy loss here
cc Product-Analytics for awareness as well

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	• DAbad	T295073 <Org-Wide Impact> Google Chrome User-Agent Deprecation Impact
Resolved	kostajh	T242825 Deal with Google Chrome User-Agent deprecation
Duplicate	None	T265057 SPIKE: consider problems to data pipelines as a result of reduced user agent entropy in Google Chrome

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• fdans created this task.Oct 8 2020, 4:49 PM

LGoto moved this task from Triage to Tracking on the Product-Analytics board.Oct 13 2020, 5:12 PM

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Milimetric renamed this task from Update uaparser if needed to handle Google's privacy changes to SPIKE: consider all problems that might happen when we handle Google's privacy changes.Oct 19 2020, 4:14 PM

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@emil is this on your radar? It seems relatively important to get started and is another instance of where I don't know how things fit in the new way we organize tasks.

@Milimetric @odimitrijevic is there anything else you want to do with this task, or should we mark it as Declined/Resolved?

kostajh renamed this task from SPIKE: consider all problems that might happen when we handle Google's privacy changes to SPIKE: consider problems to data pipelines as a result of reduced user agent entropy in Google Chrome.Jun 1 2023, 12:57 PM

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