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Mozilla Backs off on Data Collection: Firefox Labs to Not Require Telemetry or Studies in Future Updates (www.quippd.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's still much better than chrome and most other mainstream browser and it works.

All the "better" options require serious effort to use. Sites will break, features you used will be removed, and so on.

The computer world is fracturing in a weird and annoying way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

computer world is fracturing

May I interest you in a healthy does of https://splintercon.net/ ?

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

The splinternet is very real and imminent. As stated by The Hated One.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agree about the fracturing. I've been using Librewolf for months and it's basially Firefox without the telemetry nonsense. Most sites work fine and it's not that hard to setup. Just import your bookmarks and your good to go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Feel like Everytime it's brought up people mention missing features or broken sites. I've been meaning to try it but someone gets brought up every time. Stuff I usually like.

Like tabs across devices, does that work?

Am I misremembering, but it doesn't do updates right? Like you have to manually go get them? Which I'm likely to forget forever...