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

submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, it sends data by default - but you can disable that. Not so for Firefox Labs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah I just realised that and was going to amend my comment - you're right, that is a difference. Still, "towards spyware" is a bit too strong for my tastes. Not to mention "turns away from open source", given that I don't think the source code for any of these features is hidden or not released under the MPL.