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Academic research in the social sciences is rigorously based on the concept of informed consent (i.e., opt-in), in the first place.

There would be no change in terms of research design and the ability to draw scientific conclusions.

edit: also, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27633212 for details on research design considerations when conducting social science.

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Except as noted elsewhere, Mozilla also gets the data to "improve products and services" right?

So it sounds like a nice shiny cloak for...exactly the kind of data collection nobody actually likes.

Yay for extra steps?