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.
What are firefox labs…?
If it’s experimental features there is actually an argument that telemetry might be the a big point of them offering those features in the first place.
I think locking it sucks, they could still get valuable feedback from community discussion without telemetry, but I’m guessing those features being there for testing and experimentation and therefor needing telemetry to evaluate them is the reasoning for the choice… :/
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-labs-fx138/
Neat, thank you!
Data collection might be helpful for product development (Google and Microsoft keep telling me that “sharing” is “helping” them too), but…
There is no good argument that Firefox features must be gated behind mandatory telemetry.