Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox | The Mozilla Blog
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We’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated Privacy Notice.  Why now? Although we’ve historically relie

Not a good look for Firefox. Third partners and device fingerprinting clearly mentioned in the documents.

The move is the latest development in a series of shifts Mozilla has undergone over the past year.

The gecko engine and Firefox forks, such as Tor, Mullvad, Librewolf, and Arkenfox, are stables of private, open source web browsing.

In fact, Mozilla’s is one of the few browser engines out there, in a protocol-heavy industry that many say only corporate or well-funded non-profits can reliably develop.

What is more, daily driving the more hardened-for-privacy Firefox derivatives can be frowned upon by many sites, including your bank and workplace.

Mozilla’s enshittification leaves the open source community without a good alternative to Firefox, after years of promoting it as a privacy-friendly alternative to spyware-cum-browser Chrome.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      51·
      18 hours ago

      Reductionism is lazy and sucks. You didn’t even read the comment you responded to, you’re just mad that not everyone is upset enough for you.

      • Coldmoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        34·
        18 hours ago

        No, not particularly. I’m not that upset myself, I recently switched to Librewolf. I just get annoyed at what I perceive as statements that ride the fence. Privacy is not a place to give ground on.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          32·
          3 hours ago

          I suppose Mozilla should lock the doors and institute slave labor rather than find some way of paying their employees that might be construed by you to be giving up privacy

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
          6·
          18 hours ago

          Did it ever occur to you that people can have a mix of views that don’t fully conform to one ideology or another? It’s a spectrum, not riding the fence. Like politics, not everything is a team sport.

    • tomatolung@lemmy.world
      34·
      19 hours ago

      That’s an idiotic statement. Realism or understanding what realpolitik is in a political situation is far more likely to allow you find and develop change in an organization, as well keep you from wasting your time on useless leverage points. In this case knowing both frames of reference is valuable so that action can be taken, as opposed to just writing five words.