Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection (www.quippd.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

35 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I guess I just won't use Firefox labs then. I'm not turning telemetry on.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

This is a workaround to a fundamental problem: You already have the feature installed on your hard drive. It doesn't require telemetry to run.

So why is Mozilla artificially requiring you to enable it?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

As long as Firefox is open source, I can strip the requirements and recompile it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Good for you. Most people can't, and being dismissive about this is disturbingly anti-consumer.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'm anti capitalist. People who use FOSS aren't consumers, they're users.

Fact is that there are already several forks out there that are more privacy respecting.

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025

7 points (54.2% liked)

Firefox

5387 readers

153 users here now

A community for discussion about Mozilla Firefox.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]