cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/firefox@lemmy.world/t/2320051
Starting in Firefox 138, Mozilla started gating Firefox Labs features behind data collection.
Mozilla had announced that some new Firefox features would be released via Firefox Labs.
It is now a few hours since I posted, and there is reason to celebrate – Mozilla is updating Firefox Labs to let people access features without needing to enable data collection.
Firefox, sly as a fox, chicken as a chicken
Why a chicken? At least they are not forcing it down our throats like others do.
They are not forcing it down our throats because of the backslash of the community. So…chicken!
I’m really not happy with the path Mozilla chose.
Hey, I knew things would be okay in the end. ☺️
🤔 I thought you wanted Labs features to be gated
I am happy they’re giving people a choice. On the other hand, the fact is, (privacy respecting) telemetry is the only way to make a program as complicated as a web browser better. Especially important when your competition is a giant data hoarder with orders of magnitude more users. And people will just not turn on opt-in telemetry.
Do you really think Firefox did a better job of improving with every version from 57 to 139, vs 1 to 56? Personally, I haven’t seen it…
Is Netflix doing a better job of improving its programming compared to network TV of the 1990s and 2000s?
Call my principles old fashioned, but if companies want to know what people want, they could always ask. Ask and then listen.
