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

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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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[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week 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.

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