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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2320051

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] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Firefox, sly as a fox, chicken as a chicken

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

Why a chicken? At least they are not forcing it down our throats like others do.

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

They are not forcing it down our throats because of the backslash of the community. So...chicken!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, I knew things would be okay in the end. ☺️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am happy they're giving people a choice. On the other hand, the fact is, (privacy respecting) telemetry is the only way to make a program as complicated as a web browser better. Especially important when your competition is a giant data hoarder with orders of magnitude more users. And people will just not turn on opt-in telemetry.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I'm really not happy with the path Mozilla chose.