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gratux , to No Stupid Questions in Will LibreWolf be affected by Firefox's new Terms of Service?
@gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It's quite a bit more then that actually... https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/ states

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. 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.

A very broad, basically unrestricted license to any and all input you make (mouse clicks, keystrokes, file uploads, ...) for a very vague purpose.

Additionally, it says you ought to follow the Mozilla Acceptable Use Policy which includes not at all problematic things like

  • no illegal stuff. Illegal where? We don't know! (Do anything illegal or otherwise violate applicable law)
  • sending a message to someone without asking first. How? We don't know! (... send unsolicited communications ...)
  • no troll account, no parody accounts (Deceive, mislead, defraud, phish, or commit or attempt to commit identity theft)
  • no illegal gambling. Again, illegal where? Who knows! (Engage in or promote illegal gambling)
  • don't buy controlled drugs, even if a doctor prescribed them (Sell, purchase, or advertise illegal or controlled products or services)
  • no porn, no LGBT memes (Upload, download, transmit, display, or grant access to content that includes graphic depictions of sexuality or violence)
  • no torrents, no youtube downloads (Violate the copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property rights of others)

What a fun and totally sensible list of restrictions for a "free" web browser to have.

@BjornW@mastodon.social avatar BjornW , to random

Well, that was quick!

I wrote about about my disappointment with @mozillaofficial changes:

https://mastodon.social/@BjornW/114032743031437841

Seems they were just starting 🙄

Read
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-terms-of-use/

Check

Consider other Open Source apps you may use: aren't you sad that these lack ToS & Privacy legalese?

My advise: move away from Mozilla.

They have lost my trust.

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@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

I’m in the process of rewriting our sites that use Site.js¹, which has been deprecated for some time now, in Kitten².

In any of your sites use Site.js, I’d highly recommend doing the same thing. This is also a heads up for anyone who uses Site.js to install and run their own Owncast server³.

Site.js will be retired and the web site will start forwarding to Kitten’s at the end of April, 2025.

In May, automatic TLS certificate renewals for existing sites will start to fail.

(Kitten is the spritual successor to Site.js. Or think of Site.js as my first attempt at a Small Web server. I learned a lot while making it and a lot of the components I built for Site.js – like Auto Encrypt⁴, etc. – live on in Kitten.)

:kitten:💕

¹ https://sitejs.org
² kitten.small-web.org
³ CC @gabek , @owncast : If Site.js is still listed as a way of installing Owncast, now would be a good time to remove that and to relay this to folks in the Owncast community :)
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt