Firefox Terms of Use
Effective February 25, 2025
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/
"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."
so, let it be clear:
I DO NOT CONSENT to Mozilla Corp. accessing or using ANYTHING i type in my browser, whether to serve ads, train LLMs or ANYTHING.
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@jz Done! Goodbye #Firefox hello #LibreWolf! A big FU to #Mozilla which just removed the section in the FAQ promising to never sell my data as part of their change in privacy policy. Why would they remove that section if it was all just a misunderstanding? Sad to see the decline of a company I had great respect for -- it has reached the level where I can no longer use Firefox.
@jz JE N’ARRIVE PAS À Y CROIRE ! Quelle trahison ! Utilisateur depuis le tout début, même de Mozilla avant Firefox, je me sens extrêmement trahi. C’est vraiment très grave.
@jz I stand corrected. The changes where they deprecate all claims of "we don't sell your data" to be removed in the near future is a slap on the face of every Firefox user that believed in them. I don't know what data they intend to sell, but I don't care if it's just the sponsored things we all disable, you DON'T back track from a promise like that.
a plan could be:
- switch immediately to forks maintained by people determined to not let any of these planned enshitified anti-features live;
- learn to live with different views of the web (qutebrowser, links -g, etc.) for truly web-compliant sites;
- engage in a serious, critical discussion on collectively securing a future (that includes funding) for auditing and mid- /long-term developments such as a safe/reliable web-browser;
- watch/support https://servo.org/
@jz @scops Alternatives to Firefox: https://infolib.re/blog/navigateurs-web/
@jz I'm joining you in abandoning the Mozilla Foundation. I am trying out a Firefox fork, Waterfox, that is generally compatible with my needs. Do you know if Thunderbird is also involved in Mozilla's enshittification agenda?
1. send them a legal notice that you do not authorize the collection or use of their information
2. remove the enshittified terms of service from the program, as authorized by the copyright license, but leave the data-snooping malfeatures in place, sending them the data that you have not authorized them to use
3. sue the hell out of them for using the data without authorization, until they implement, on their side, as they should, code that refuses to accept data that hasn't been formally authorized through explicit registration, opting in and consent, as opposed to by presumed adherence to terms of service
CC: @OdyX@framapiaf.org @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social
Btw dp you know which version of Firefox starts having the datalogging antifeature?
JavaScript is disabled in your browser.
Please enable JavaScript to proceed.that's all it tells me.
I guess the outrageous demands won't apply to anyone who blocks javascript, eh?
@jla @jdormansteele2 can it be simply de-activated in about:config? or DNS blacklist?
@jz @jla @jdormansteele2 i would recommend a more global approach, like using opensnitch on linux, or equivalent , which allow to block outgoing connections based on IP, domains, program calling, port, etc.
This way, block all undesired 'call home' for any software.
@squalouJenkins @jla @jdormansteele2 I would support that.
I have a very old-fashioned and probably super-obsolete blacklist of google (and related services) IPs...