They’re the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don’t want my pain privacy taken away. I need my pain privacy!

  • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
    54·
    12 hours ago

    They are just covering their butts legally against someone suing them for typing a URL into the URL bar.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      No, they’re not. No software company has ever needed legal cover for that and nothing changed in the legal landscape to create that need now. To pretend that there is such a need is to deliberately misrepresent the fundamental nature of what a product, such as software running locally on the user’s machine, actually is.

      The only justification for having ToS is if Mozilla is transforming Firefox into a service that depends on communication with Mozilla’s servers themselves, which is absolutely not just “typing a URL into the URL bar!”

    • isosphere@beehaw.orgEnglish
      111·
      9 hours ago

      I’ve seen this sentiment, but I don’t think it’s credible. I don’t think we should normalize legalese that explicitly enables bullshit; it’s not like it couldn’t be written any other way. It’s written in English, though it has legal intent, and we have words and phrases to clarify such things.

      • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
        12·
        9 hours ago

        Perhaps if you gave an example from the TOS to illustrate what you mean by “enabling bullshit” your position would be more clear?

        • isosphere@beehaw.orgEnglish
          71·
          8 hours ago

          Exhibit A: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-promise-to-never-sell-personal-data-asks-users-not-to-panic/

          Exhibit B: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

          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.

          I don’t agree to this as written; and I am not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt given Exhibit A. I think an argument could be made that selling my data to advertisers would help me “experience” and “interact” with online content. Perhaps it would be a difficult argument, perhaps not. I think skepticism is warranted.

          Firefox has struggled to find a profitable business model outside of Google paying to be the default search engine, and it looks like these changes are a pivot to address this. I don’t think it will be good for users.