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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    1 day ago

    Yes, it sends data by default - but you can disable that. Not so for Firefox Labs.

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      24 hours ago

      Yeah I just realised that and was going to amend my comment - you’re right, that is a difference. Still, “towards spyware” is a bit too strong for my tastes. Not to mention “turns away from open source”, given that I don’t think the source code for any of these features is hidden or not released under the MPL.