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Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection (www.quippd.com)

submitted 3 days ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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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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[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Can someone eli5 the open source part of this?

The article basically says Firefox isn't ditching open source but I (the author) feel like the new terms are anti-open source?

Huh? Beside the click bait title, lying about the mozzila's intention, what's the author going on about?

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

There's a bizarre and extremely hostile subset of users who seem to have some kind of vendetta against Mozilla and Firefox. They're not above criticism, obviously, but these people inflate literally everything with unnecessary hostility.

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's kinda letter of the law vs spirit of the law.

People got opinions of what open-source should stand for outside of just having the source code available for others to use.

I doubt Mozilla are gonna lock away the source code anytime soon, But their recent antics have rubbed a lot of FOSS people the wrong way.

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

That doesn't explain the hostility. Nothing Mozilla has done recently warrants anywhere near as much aggression and rage baiting as these people have been doing.