Re: Improving trust and transparency for Suggested Tiles

On Friday, April 24, 2015 at 11:16:00 AM UTC-7, Chris Hofmann wrote:
> It might be better to just give users a menu of the types of content we
> have to offer, and they could check off would like to see mixed in among
> their tiles.
Even with a menu for user to pick, how would a user know if it's safe real suggestion vs a fake suggestion that is just trying to extract browsing history?

For example, one policy for creating the site matching is to use at least 5 sites. We could build that logic into Firefox to make sure there's at least 5. But Firefox doesn't have enough information to determine that some sites are fake, e.g., ["mozilla.org", "looksrealbutfake.com", "yetanotherfake.com", "site4.com", "site5.com"]. Because 4 of the 5 sites will never be in the user's history, if this suggestion is shown, then it must be because the user went to mozilla.org.