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Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection (www.quippd.com)
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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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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

For what it's worth, on Windows, AppData\Roaming is intended to be shared across devices to some extent (there's more nuance but the point being I'd be less worried about syncing data from there).