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.

  • tritonium@midwest.social
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    5 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.

    Lmao, no… browsers like LibreWolf have no issues keeping up with updates.

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

    That’s because you keep moving goalposts so you don’t have to face the reality that you’re a moron that’s blowing smoke. You stated, “even if you’re putting a massive effort in by using almost exclusively FOSS and maintaining a stack of ad blockers.” That gave it away. With that statement, I know, you’re an idiot and have nooooooooooooo fucking clue how this shit works. And I called you out there… and you conveniently ignored that and changed the subject. So do you want me to explain how easy it is to setup adblocking that requires no maintenance? And then will you admit that you are wrong? Because again, it doesn’t require any maintenance whatsoever… I’ll teach you buddy, don’t worry, no cost to you.

    Also let’s look at my initial claim, “I selfhost and use mostly FOSS and have ways of blocking 99% of ads and locally control all my IoT so if you’re willing to learn then you don’t have to feel that way. Because I feel in full control and in harmony with everything.”

    Two things. 1) I said mostly FOSS, 2) I do feel in harmony with the amount of control and customization I have over my devices which was in response to someone feeling the opposite. You’ve not said anything to counter this. I can easily go through my entire stack on every platform if you are actually interested in learning how these things work. But if not, I will continue to make fun of you for being dumb, I don’t care either way. You’re entertaining me.