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.
Welp, there goes their consumer trust
Damned if they do, damned if they don’t?
Damned if they do, cuz they did. Feel free to trust their pinky swear “we promise not to try to fuck you over again”
incidentally gatekeeping new features being A/B tested is hardly fucking anyone over. Let’s save the rage for things that matter.
Advertising yourself as a good option for privacy then taking your data is fucking you over. And it was only two days ago that they tried forcing it, and they’re already lowering the middle finger and apologising.
Let’s try to not mislead people here by pointing to some a/b testing thing that has nothing to do with policy changes and enforcement
Let’s try to not mislead people here by pointing to some a/b testing thing that has nothing to do with policy changes and enforcement
The Nimbus migration is literally why it was kept behind telemetry for a couple days, that’s not a red-herring. You’re attributing malice to neglect - which is now fixed.
It’s not a couple of days, it is in place today. We need to wait until new code is developed to enable Labs for people who have telemetry or studies disabled.
