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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 3 days ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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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 โ€“ Mozilla is updating Firefox Labs to let people access features without needing to enable data collection.

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[โ€“] yoasif@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if you will get excoriated for this opinion, since I had to respond to people in my last post with an update because people were adamant that Firefox was open source. ๐Ÿ˜ผ

[โ€“] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

There are two "Firefox"s:

  1. Firefox, the code base.
  2. Firefox, the compiled binary of that code base.

The codebase remains open source under the MPL while the binary explicitly, by Mozilla's own admission, is not. They are source available.

From the very brief skim I did of your post, it looks like we're on the same page. I had a few people who don't understand open source licenses come at me in my Lemmy replies when this was first unfolding. Ultimately it's on them to understand their agreements.