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!

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    5 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!”