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.

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      1 month ago

      This is a workaround to a fundamental problem: You already have the feature installed on your hard drive. It doesn’t require telemetry to run.

      So why is Mozilla artificially requiring you to enable it?

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          1 month ago

          Good for you. Most people can’t, and being dismissive about this is disturbingly anti-consumer.

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            1 month ago

            I’m anti capitalist. People who use FOSS aren’t consumers, they’re users.

            Fact is that there are already several forks out there that are more privacy respecting.