Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox
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Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a 'Terms of Use' policy — a first for the

From the new terms:

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.

    • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      76•4 months ago

      It’s what’s known as “vulture capitalism” or “parasitic capitalism”, where sociopathic kleptocrats are allowed control and treat all aspects of life as hostile and adversarial — value must be extracted and stolen from others — rather than a mutually beneficial relationship to improve and enrich the experience for everyone.

      This is exemplified by the stock market and “line must go up” — the belief that stable, sustainable profits are a failure and growth must be continuous and exponential, in a planet and civilisation of finite resources, analogous to cancer.

    • YonderEpochs
      26•4 months ago

      Hard agree. It does feel like we’re entering an age where that may start to shift, though. Well, not so much a shift in the “mainstream”, but it feels like we’re starting to see more and more parallel products and services that have anti-enshittification built in. And I think that’s our best path forward, all of us who care should work towards a parallel ecosystem that cuts these practices out as much as we can.

      • ScrubblesEnglish
        8•4 months ago

        And be vocal about it! People are usually surprised in how I run services. Many many people won’t be able to, but many people can, so let them know they don’t have to be locked into paying for services.

        For example “ugh Google, I hate paying for drive every month”

        What do you use it for?

        Oh just backups really.

        Why not just an external hard drive then, or there are more expandable options out there.

        Oh yeah, I forgot about those… Maybe I should look into them again…

      • @merc@sh.itjust.works
        10•4 months ago

        Sure, Jan. I guess you’re not using a web browser to post this? Not using an app, because that would mean having an Android or Apple phone?

        I think you underestimate just how shitty everything now is, even if you’re putting a massive effort in by using almost exclusively FOSS and maintaining a stack of ad blockers.

          • @merc@sh.itjust.works
            2•4 months ago

            So, you use a browser that’s vulnerable to enshittification, because there’s no way to avoid this. There are only 3 companies working on browser engines, only 2 work on non-mac platforms, and both depend on advertising. Sorry you didn’t realize that.

              • @merc@sh.itjust.works
                2•4 months ago

                Firefox and Chromium are open source, but virtually everybody working on them is employed by Google or Mozilla.

                If you look at the changelogs and dev blogs of all the various forked versions of those projects, what you’ll see is that the devs spend basically all their time trying to keep up with all the changes coming out of Google/Mozilla and then trying to find out how to re-integrate the tweaks they’ve developed that makes their version different – which is normally just applying a skin, or a plugin, or removing something they consider a misfeature.

                Let me know if you would like me to continue schooling you.

                Oh, I wasn’t aware you’d started. You must be a terrible teacher.