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Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection (www.quippd.com)
submitted 3 weeks 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] 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is so true. I've been watching this shift happen across the entire tech landscape for years. What was once "we'd never collect your data" became "we collect anonymized data" became "you can opt out" and now "you must opt in for features." Its the classic boiling frog scenario and Mozilla was supposed to be different.