Mozilla Clarifies on Data Collection: Firefox Labs to Not Require Telemetry or Studies in Future Updates
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TL;DR: Mozilla has shifted from the forced telemetry introduced in Firefox 138 for Firefox Labs. Hours after I posted about the Labs change, Mozilla opened bug 1972647, which describes a change to Labs to allow it to be used when telemetry or studies are disabled.

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.

  • LWD@lemm.ee
    6·
    2 days ago

    No offense, Vincent, but your methods don’t work: Firefox Connect has ignored requests like “Add StartPage” for years and uses the platform to announce other search engines getting added instead.

    Please don’t dissuade people from using effective methods

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
      12·
      2 days ago

      I guess, but it’s just so tiring to keep getting collectively outraged about every little thing. And sometimes it does have the opposite effect, i.e. it doesn’t necessarily work.

      (Although I don’t think you could stir up an effective outrage campaign that would result in StartPage getting added, but I’ll concede the larger point that Connect posts aren’t automatically added to the TODO list.)