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

submitted 2 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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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Selling your data also makes sense, especially for a company that is in dire straights. That's what Google did. Since 2023, this is also a Mozilla practice.

I'm just trying to figure out what your ethical bar for Mozilla is.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since 2023, this is also a Mozilla practice.

Curious to know more about that. Is that verifiable somewhere official, that they do this? Or has it been whistleblown somehow?

If not, I still trust that they don't sell any personally-identifiable information about me.

I'm just trying to figure out what your ethical bar for Mozilla is.

I'll do my best to help, as I have been so far.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://lemm.ee/post/14474425

[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You mean the thing they just shut down?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Exactly.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's still up, so nice try.

Are you trying to imply Mozilla gets a free pass for spending two years selling private data to advertisement companies?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

It's still up, so nice try.

From: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/ (as of today)

Mozilla gets a free pass for spending two years selling private data to advertisement companies?

Definitely not from me anyway. I didn't know about this as I don't use Fakespot or Firefox Beta.

At least it's in the privacy policy so that we can choose to avoid it, rather than being forced upon us Chrome style.