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Add tool to allow users to learn details of what variations are being tried upon them #100

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jidanni opened this issue Aug 17, 2021 · 4 comments

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@jidanni
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jidanni commented Aug 17, 2021

One day the average chrome user sees
chrome://version/
and curious about the "variations" there,
finally reads that they are experiments.

In fact ones that make his browser behave different from his neighbors,
to the confusion of everybody.

So he researches how he might find out what experiments he is a guinea
pig for... but alas they are just coded strings of numbers and letters.

So later he reads that chrome://version/?show-variations-cmd can show
him more. But he still is treated like a wet food stamp -- no respect
for his right to know.

Therefore perhaps you folks could make a tool to help him list out
exactly what experiments he is subject to, in all detail.

Thanks.

@jidanni
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jidanni commented Aug 17, 2021

@iefremov
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@jidanni we already show variation names by default, please check brave://version (see also brave/brave-browser#14780)

We also have a public dashboard https://griffin.brave.com/

and some of the experiments have human readable description on brave://flags/
Others can be easily found on our bugtracker.

@bsclifton
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Closing as question has been addressed and there hasn't been a response 😄

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jidanni commented Sep 13, 2021

(Erg, I am not brave enough to use brave,
and was thinking that maybe brave variations were the same as chrome variations,
and there might be a way to look the latter up.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1246668#c16 )

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