diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/Analytics.tsx b/components/dashboard/src/Analytics.tsx
index 3ff8c09fece6f9..11831cafcaa0f7 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/Analytics.tsx
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/Analytics.tsx
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ interface TrackPathChanged {
 }
 
 interface TrackUIExperiments {
-  ui_experiments?: string[],
+  ui_experiments?: {},
 }
 
 //call this to track all events outside of button and anchor clicks
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ export const trackEvent = (event: Event, properties: EventProperties) => {
 }
 
 const trackEventInternal = (event: InternalEvent, properties: InternalEventProperties, userKnown?: boolean) => {
-  properties.ui_experiments = Experiment.getAsArray();
+  properties.ui_experiments = Experiment.get();
 
   getGitpodService().server.trackEvent({
     //if the user is authenticated, let server determine the id. else, pass anonymousId explicitly.
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ export const trackLocation = async (userKnown: boolean) => {
     path: window.location.pathname,
     host: window.location.hostname,
     url: window.location.href,
-    ui_experiments: Experiment.getAsArray(),
+    ui_experiments: Experiment.get(),
   };
 
   getGitpodService().server.trackLocation({
diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/experiments.ts b/components/dashboard/src/experiments.ts
index e40d62020dd566..bac27ec8a99d65 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/experiments.ts
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/experiments.ts
@@ -30,57 +30,68 @@ const Experiments = {
     // "example": 0.1,
     "login-from-context-6826": 0.5, // https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/6826
 };
-const ExperimentsSet = new Set(Object.keys(Experiments)) as Set<Experiment>;
+type Experiments = Partial<{ [e in Experiment]: boolean }>;
 export type Experiment = keyof (typeof Experiments);
 
 export namespace Experiment {
-    export function seed(keepCurrent: boolean): Set<Experiment> {
-        const current = keepCurrent ? get() : undefined;
-
-        // add all current experiments to ensure stability
-        const result = new Set<Experiment>([...(current || [])].filter(e => ExperimentsSet.has(e)));
+    /**
+     * Randomly decides what the set of Experiments is the user participates in
+     * @param keepCurrent
+     * @returns Experiments
+     */
+    export function seed(keepCurrent: boolean): Experiments {
+        const result = keepCurrent ? get() || {} : {};
 
-        // identify all new experiments and add if random
-        const newExperiment = new Set<Experiment>([...ExperimentsSet].filter(e => !result.has(e)));
-        for (const e of newExperiment) {
-            if (Math.random() < Experiments[e]) {
-                result.add(e);
+        for (const experiment of Object.keys(Experiments) as Experiment[]) {
+            if (!(experiment in result)) {
+                result[experiment] = Math.random() < Experiments[experiment];
             }
         }
 
         return result;
     }
 
-    export function set(set: Set<Experiment>): void {
+    export function set(set: Experiments): void {
         try {
-            const arr = Array.from(set);
-            window.localStorage.setItem(UI_EXPERIMENTS_KEY, JSON.stringify(arr));
+            window.localStorage.setItem(UI_EXPERIMENTS_KEY, JSON.stringify(set));
         } catch (err) {
-            console.error(`error setting ${UI_EXPERIMENTS_KEY}`, err);
+            console.warn(`error setting ${UI_EXPERIMENTS_KEY}`, err);
         }
     }
 
     export function has(experiment: Experiment): boolean {
-        const set = get();
-        if (!set) {
+        try {
+            const set = get();
+            if (!set) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            return set[experiment] === true;
+        } catch (err) {
+            console.warn(`error checking experiment '${experiment}'`, err);
             return false;
         }
-        return set.has(experiment);
     }
 
-    export function get(): Set<Experiment> | undefined {
-        const arr = window.localStorage.getItem(UI_EXPERIMENTS_KEY);
-        if (arr === null) {
-            return undefined;
-        }
-        return new Set(JSON.parse(arr)) as Set<Experiment>;
-    }
+    /** Retrieves all currently valid Experiments from localStorage */
+    export function get(): Experiments | undefined {
+        try {
+            const objStr = window.localStorage.getItem(UI_EXPERIMENTS_KEY);
+            if (objStr === null) {
+                return undefined;
+            }
 
-    export function getAsArray(): Experiment[] {
-        const set = get();
-        if (!set) {
-            return [];
+            const obj = JSON.parse(objStr) as Experiments;
+            // trim to contain only known keys so we're type-safe
+            for (const e of Object.keys(obj)) {
+                if (!(e in Experiments)) {
+                    delete (obj as any)[e];
+                }
+            }
+            return obj;
+        } catch (err) {
+            // we definitely don't want to break anybody because of weird errors
+            console.warn(`error getting ${UI_EXPERIMENTS_KEY}`, err);
+            return undefined;
         }
-        return Array.from(set);
     }
 }
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