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鈥檛 the labs when they鈥檙e A/B testing or benchmarking new features before general release and toggle random people鈥檚 settings doing so? I vaguely recall some drama around that.
If I turn off telemetry I want those off too, it makes sense they鈥檙e linked. It you want a new feature there鈥檚 always nightly+about:config, but I don鈥檛 want it downloading random config toggles especially if it鈥檚 not reporting back that it broke my stuff. The code should be what I installed and compiled by my distro, not some random lab blob downloaded off their servers at runtime.
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That鈥檚 the point, we don鈥檛 want it to phone home. So why are we crying it won鈥檛 let us turn on an even worse feature when telemetry is off?
If you don鈥檛 like it phoning home, why would you possibly want it to download and execute random code pushed by Mozilla? No phoning home means no phoning home. You can鈥檛 possibly want telemetry off and labs on at the same time.
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Didn鈥檛 they make some nefarious post on their shit intentions earlier this year? Rip mozilla.