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.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    So your logic would say Mozilla should require all Firefox Beta users to submit to mandatory data collection?

    I’m not saying they should, I’m just saying it makes sense. It’s for a good cause, rather than selling it to advertisers e.g. And harmless data not meant to identify/fingerprint you, but to develop an understanding of their own product.

    • LWD@lemm.ee
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      8 hours ago

      Selling your data also makes sense, especially for a company that is in dire straights. That’s what Google did. Since 2023, this is also a Mozilla practice.

      I’m just trying to figure out what your ethical bar for Mozilla is.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Since 2023, this is also a Mozilla practice.

        Curious to know more about that. Is that verifiable somewhere official, that they do this? Or has it been whistleblown somehow?

        If not, I still trust that they don’t sell any personally-identifiable information about me.

        I’m just trying to figure out what your ethical bar for Mozilla is.

        I’ll do my best to help, as I have been so far.