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# Shield Study: Privacy
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When we want to know the effects of certain Firefox changes to improve privacy,
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we can make the changes in an arm/variation of this shield study add-on,
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so we can measure the effect of the changes via Telemetry.
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## Current study
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To see what the add-on is studying, check the `studyConfig.variations` in
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`lib/study.js`.
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## Run it
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The easiest way to run the study add-on is with the `shield` cli.
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1. `npm i -g shield-study-cli jpm`
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2. `shield run . -- -b Aurora`
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You can also make `shield` start Firefox with a certain variation:
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`shield run . <variation> -- -b Aurora`
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## See also
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* [shield-studies-addon-template README](https://github.com/mozilla/shield-studies-addon-template/blob/master/README.md)
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* [shield-studies-addon-utils](https://github.com/mozilla/shield-studies-addon-utils)
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* [howToShieldStudy](https://github.com/mozilla/shield-studies-addon-utils/blob/master/howToShieldStudy.md)
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* [shield-studies-docs](https://mozilla.github.io/shield-studies-docs/)
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