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.

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
    52·
    1 day ago

    That kind of makes sense? Aren’t the labs when they’re A/B testing or benchmarking new features before general release and toggle random people’s settings doing so? I vaguely recall some drama around that.

    If I turn off telemetry I want those off too, it makes sense they’re linked. It you want a new feature there’s always nightly+about:config, but I don’t want it downloading random config toggles especially if it’s not reporting back that it broke my stuff. The code should be what I installed, not some random lab blob downloaded off their servers at runtime.

    • infeeeee@lemmy.zip
      7·
      1 day ago

      IIRC they used labs for “ads” in the past, so disabling labs was already recommended, now it’s just double recommended.

    • gaael@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      That kind of makes sense? Aren’t the labs when they’re A/B testing or benchmarking new features before general release and toggle random people’s settings doing so?

      Per the article, the A/B testing rollout already exists in Studies:

      Mozilla introduced studies as “controlled A/B tests built right into Firefox” and they “allow us to compare proposed changes to the default experience in Firefox for small, representative, populations before shipping those changes to everyone.”

      I have no detailed knowledge on any of this, so I don’t know how accurate the article really is.