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Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection (www.quippd.com)

submitted 2 days ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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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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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is a workaround to a fundamental problem: You already have the feature installed on your hard drive. It doesn't require telemetry to run.

So why is Mozilla artificially requiring you to enable it?

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good for you. Most people can't, and being dismissive about this is disturbingly anti-consumer.

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 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.