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

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 17 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 16 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.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

You mean the thing they just shut down?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

It's still up, so nice try.

Are you trying to imply Mozilla gets a free pass for spending two years selling private data to advertisement companies?

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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