Mozilla Turns Firefox Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection
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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.

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.

  • Geodad@lemmy.world
    91·
    9 days ago

    I guess I just won’t use Firefox labs then. I’m not turning telemetry on.

      • Geodad@lemmy.world
        31·
        9 days ago

        As long as Firefox is open source, I can strip the requirements and recompile it.

          • Geodad@lemmy.world
            31·
            9 days ago

            I’m anti capitalist. People who use FOSS aren’t consumers, they’re users.

            Fact is that there are already several forks out there that are more privacy respecting.