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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] 0 points 1 week ago

It is the overarching theme in every aspect of life nowadays.

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS ARTIFICIALLY BLOWN UP DETAIL

While literally every other point will show you the opposite is true. Its how capitalism works in general.

Foss is a huge thorn in their side too. One reason why google seems to destroy aosp slowly.