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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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[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's kinda letter of the law vs spirit of the law.

People got opinions of what open-source should stand for outside of just having the source code available for others to use.

I doubt Mozilla are gonna lock away the source code anytime soon, But their recent antics have rubbed a lot of FOSS people the wrong way.

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

That doesn't explain the hostility. Nothing Mozilla has done recently warrants anywhere near as much aggression and rage baiting as these people have been doing.