Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox
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Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a 'Terms of Use' policy — a first for the

From the new terms:

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    113·
    2 days ago

    Sure, Jan. I guess you’re not using a web browser to post this? Not using an app, because that would mean having an Android or Apple phone?

    I think you underestimate just how shitty everything now is, even if you’re putting a massive effort in by using almost exclusively FOSS and maintaining a stack of ad blockers.

    • tritonium@midwest.social
      14·
      1 day ago

      My phone is running LineageOS without GAPPS. I use Firefox but with the advent of this news, will be changing to more hardened versions of it. I spend no effort maintaining my ad blockers past the initial setup, the fact that you have no idea how much work is involved shows that you have no idea what you are talking about… you are a smoke blower.

      I’m more than happy to go back and forth with you and give you specifics to show just how little you know, but I’m curious. Why did my comment seemingly irk you? Do you feel insecure because are lazy and adopted a defeatist attitude to justify your laziness and/or lack of knowledge? Because it is 100% possible to control your devices and data, honestly, you’re probably just kinda dumb buddy. But again, if you want to learn, I’ll happily educate you on specifics.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        23 hours ago

        So, you use a browser that’s vulnerable to enshittification, because there’s no way to avoid this. There are only 3 companies working on browser engines, only 2 work on non-mac platforms, and both depend on advertising. Sorry you didn’t realize that.

        • tritonium@midwest.social
          22·
          20 hours ago

          You realize that Firefox and Chromium are open source and there are hardened versions that have the “enshitification” aspects removed from them, right? How fucking slow are you buddy, because that’s the great thing about FOSS… if we don’t like something in a project, we fork it. Let me know if you would like me to continue schooling you.

          • merc@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            18 hours ago

            Firefox and Chromium are open source, but virtually everybody working on them is employed by Google or Mozilla.

            If you look at the changelogs and dev blogs of all the various forked versions of those projects, what you’ll see is that the devs spend basically all their time trying to keep up with all the changes coming out of Google/Mozilla and then trying to find out how to re-integrate the tweaks they’ve developed that makes their version different – which is normally just applying a skin, or a plugin, or removing something they consider a misfeature.

            Let me know if you would like me to continue schooling you.

            Oh, I wasn’t aware you’d started. You must be a terrible teacher.