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Cake day: November 8th, 2023
  • LWD@lemm.eetoFirefox@lemmy.world•Mozilla Backs off on Data Collection: Firefox Labs to Not Require Telemetry or Studies in Future Updates
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    8 months ago

    I’ve noticed a worrying trend among Firefox fans: too many of them supported this mandatory telemetry for on-device features.

    They had never held this position before. Mozilla made a change, and too many fans simply adopted it uncritically.

    Personally, I believe everyone should have internal ethical guidelines that aren’t mandated by their favorite corporation. Mozilla’s recent behavior has been particularly egregious because they push an ethical manifesto on their website and they promise every application they produce upholds them. Hopefully it should be clear to people that Mozilla’s stated goals are good because they are good and not simply because they came from Mozilla. If Mozilla updates their principles to suck, then they’ll suck. Ethics should not be treated like a religion.

    But this blog post is good news. It demonstrates that criticism actually has merit, and that Mozilla can be coerced into rolling back bad changes.

    I hope the Firefox fans who adopted Mozilla’s silent stance just a couple days ago will rethink their positions and decide not to be so harsh when they see criticism of Mozilla.

  • LWD@lemm.eetoFirefox@lemmy.world•Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection
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    8 months ago

    The title of the article is extrapolating and rephrasing the statement that Firefox and Mozilla are moving away from the “spirit” of open source. That’s completely different from actually moving away from open source.

    This newly mandatory data collection to use certain Firefox features… Do we have the source code for the server?

    I am fine with helping Mozilla collect useful data. But I’m also not interested in testing new features before they’re ready, so I’m doubly unaffected by this

    Good for you, but since it doesn’t affect you, perhaps you can refrain from extrapolating these preferences onto Mozilla’s poor behavior.