Mozilla Backs off on Data Collection: Firefox Labs to Not Require Telemetry or Studies in Future Updates
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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I'm really not happy with the path Mozilla chose.
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Firefox, sly as a fox, chicken as a chicken
Why a chicken? At least they are not forcing it down our throats like others do.
They are not forcing it down our throats because of the backslash of the community. So...chicken!
Hey, I knew things would be okay in the end. ☺️
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Must have been a misunderstanding. I merely said that it makes sense that you would want to collect usage data on potential new future features that are in development, to gather an understanding of what works and what doesn't. I didn't say that features should be arbitrarily gated. That would make no sense. 👍
Well, that's an incorrect interpretation of what it says.
I make no mention of the word "gated" or any other synonym of that. Those are your words, and it's an incorrect extrapolation of what I'm saying. I make heavy use of words like "help", and I talk about it coming from our direction.
The help should be voluntary, I will concede, but I think it would be fine if it were opt-out. Maybe a lot of people won't notice an opt-in variant, so Mozilla would get a lot less usage data.
There's a big difference between supporting something "being gated" in and of itself, and supporting helping out an organization that has a very noble mission statement (as far as I understand it anyway). That's the way I see it. 👍