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Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection (www.quippd.com)
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TL;DR: Mozilla is now enforcing data collection as a pre-requisite to access new features in Firefox Labs. This is backed by the Terms of Use that Mozilla introduced a few months ago.

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

What are firefox labs...?

If it's experimental features there is actually an argument that telemetry might be the a big point of them offering those features in the first place.

I think locking it sucks, they could still get valuable feedback from community discussion without telemetry, but I'm guessing those features being there for testing and experimentation and therefor needing telemetry to evaluate them is the reasoning for the choice... :/

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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