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.
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? I vaguely recall some drama around that.
If I turn off telemetry I want those off too, it makes sense they’re linked. It you want a new feature there’s always nightly+about:config, but I don’t want it downloading random config toggles especially if it’s not reporting back that it broke my stuff. The code should be what I installed, not some random lab blob downloaded off their servers at runtime.
like literally the point of firefox labs is to work with mozilla to get feedback on possible future features.
IIRC they used labs for “ads” in the past, so disabling labs was already recommended, now it’s just double recommended.
Per the article, the A/B testing rollout already exists in Studies:
I have no detailed knowledge on any of this, so I don’t know how accurate the article really is.