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.

  • gaael@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    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.