Mozilla Clarifies on Data Collection: Firefox Labs to Not Require Telemetry or Studies in Future Updates
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TL;DR: Mozilla has shifted from the forced telemetry introduced in Firefox 138 for Firefox Labs. Hours after I posted about the Labs change, Mozilla opened bug 1972647, which describes a change to Labs to allow it to be used when telemetry or studies are disabled.

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.

  • utopiah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    If 60% of the world however would be using a Nokia minäPuhelin you would see the same, if not worse, privacy-invasive regulation and controversy popping off every other week.

    Right… in fact if you look deep down within a TSMC chip you can see an ASML fueled IP on how to spy on people. /s

    I think you are muddying the water with unrelated (albeit legitimates) problems (e.g. court order or political proposal vs actual regulation on all companies, EU ones included) and total speculation on what you imagine would happen if the world was different.

    The Brussels effect make the world better even if the EU was not even well intentioned in the first place or didn’t actually build anything.