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Mozilla Backs off on Data Collection: Firefox Labs to Not Require Telemetry or Studies in Future Updates (www.quippd.com)
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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€“] utopiah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yes... I was going to comment that.

Sure I agree that Firefox, or Mozilla, is far from perfect. It should be better... but at the same time if we share not actually useful data, namely data to make the product better, NOT unrelated behavioral data to fuel ads, while alternatives (not to say competition) get both, then there is a problem.