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Mozilla Backs off on Data Collection: Firefox Labs to Not Require Telemetry or Studies in Future Updates (www.quippd.com)

submitted 1 year ago by yoasif@fedia.io [M] to c/firefox@fedia.io

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Starting in Firefox 138, Mozilla started gating Firefox Labs features behind data collection.

Mozilla had announced that some new Firefox features would be released via Firefox Labs.

It is now a few hours since I posted, and there is reason to celebrate – Mozilla is updating Firefox Labs to let people access features without needing to enable data collection.

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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cuz they violated the trust of the community and their presented values of being open and private. They didn't go back on this because they're good people

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

no, it's quite reasonable actually:

Nimbus was originally designed to be an A/B test platform and so it made sense at the time that if telemetry was disabled that Nimbus should be disabled because there if you need to collect data in order to do quantitative experimentation. However, as Nimbus has grown into more of a feature delivery platform, it no longer makes sense to gate everything behind having telemetry or even studies enabled.

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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

You missed the part that this data collection requirement was a new development. Your quote is misleading

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