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.

  • HouseWolf@pawb.social
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    19 hours ago

    It’s kinda letter of the law vs spirit of the law.

    People got opinions of what open-source should stand for outside of just having the source code available for others to use.

    I doubt Mozilla are gonna lock away the source code anytime soon, But their recent antics have rubbed a lot of FOSS people the wrong way.

    • doctortran@lemm.ee
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      3 hours ago

      That doesn’t explain the hostility. Nothing Mozilla has done recently warrants anywhere near as much aggression and rage baiting as these people have been doing.