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.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    0·
    2 days ago

    I await to see technical enforcement of it. Anyone can write rules on a piece of paper, but without collecting information physically, or having someone enforce it, it’s useless words. And so far it seems a lot of people and companies make rules and claims without technological enforcement.

    I imagine though at worst you can simply block all of mozilla’s domains through /etc/hosts and their IPs or IP range with a firewall rule. Still sucks but you do not need to comply with it, no matter what anyone says. It’s the technical aspects that are the most thorny, not the words on a page.

    By reading this comment you hearby agree to send Draconic NEO no less than $400 in the currency of AnimalCrossing bells, applies for each time you read it, and re-reads of words also count. You will also be required to stand on your head for 30 minutes for every instance of reading this comment or re-reading a word. Compliance with these terms is mandatory.

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
      02·
      2 days ago

      Of course the implementation itself matters more than the promise to implement it, but the one is specifically intended to lead to the other. We shouldn’t be saying, ho-hum, they’re only threatening to f*** with our privacy in the future, when in fact this is the step before they actually do that.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        4 hours ago

        I’m not saying it isn’t important all, I just think that it’s equally important to work to defeat systems and encourage people to take said action, as opposed to just trying to spread fear and despair. Which is what a lot of films about privacy and surveillance end up doing. There’s a name for that, it’s called fearmongering. Obviously we can’t stop the media from doing that but we should at least not do it ourselves.

        And for any useful idiots who try and whine about how breaking those technological measures violates Terms of Service, terms of service in software that was handed to you is as worthless as the agreement at the bottom of my other comment. You need technological or practical enforcement of it for it to make sense. Like on this site the Terms of service are enforced with a ban if you don’t follow them. On the other hand software terms of use have no such enforcement, as anyone who participates in [email protected] would understand.