• heavydust@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    Mozilla was just rewording the ToS

    No, because it’s the first time they added a useless ToS to Firefox. The ToS is not changing, and that’s the main worry, it is being created.

    • There was no ToS before, for 20 year and maybe more.
    • They don’t need a ToS for Firefox only.
    • Its existence violates the first freedom of open-source applications: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (aka “freedom 0”).
    • They refuse to explain why they need one despite developers knowing fully well that it is not needed unless you’re trying to do bad stuff.

    Yes, something bad has changed. The whole organization was a mess but it never changed or involved Firefox. It has now and they pretend that we are too stupid or confused to understand what is happening.

    If you want to stop using FF then stop

    That’s what I’m doing because it never was that bad. I already trusted Mozilla as much as I trusted Google, but it was fine since it never involved Firefox. I wish them good luck with their ads and AI experiments.

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      No, because it’s the first time they added a useless ToS to Firefox. The ToS is not changing, and that’s the main worry, it is being created.

      There was no ToS before, for 20 year and maybe more. They don’t need a ToS for Firefox only. Its existence violates the first freedom of open-source applications: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (aka “freedom 0”). They refuse to explain why they need one despite developers knowing fully well that it is not needed unless you’re trying to do bad stuff.

      they’ve had a privacy policy for years and yet that wasn’t a problem? Only the ToS is a problem?

      Its existence violates the first freedom of open-source applications: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (aka “freedom 0”).

      lol no it doesn’t. stop making shit up.

      They refuse to explain why they need one despite developers knowing fully well that it is not needed unless you’re trying to do bad stuff.

      they literally did explain, in the first paragraph, why they need one. People like you just refuse to believe it.

      We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice