Mozilla Turns Firefox Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection
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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.

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.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      When I went to Interaction Design class at University? Part of my Master of Science in Interaction Design and Technology programme. One of the very basic things we learned. 🤷‍♂️ Can’t really tell you which year it was, sorry. But it was sometime in the 2010s.

      Anyway, the reason is to ensure that the functionality works as expected for the user as well as the designer and developers. It’s just good practice. Nothing personal should be collected. Just usage data, of course.

      Remember, again, this is as far as I know just for features that are in beta (the “Labs” part, right?), and being a part of Firefox Labs is opt-in. If you opt-in, you accept these terms, surely.