Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox
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.
I await to see technical enforcement of it. Anyone can write rules on a piece of paper, but without collecting information physically, or having someone enforce it, it’s useless words. And so far it seems a lot of people and companies make rules and claims without technological enforcement.
I imagine though at worst you can simply block all of mozilla’s domains through /etc/hosts and their IPs or IP range with a firewall rule. Still sucks but you do not need to comply with it, no matter what anyone says. It’s the technical aspects that are the most thorny, not the words on a page.
By reading this comment you hearby agree to send Draconic NEO no less than $400 in the currency of AnimalCrossing bells, applies for each time you read it, and re-reads of words also count. You will also be required to stand on your head for 30 minutes for every instance of reading this comment or re-reading a word. Compliance with these terms is mandatory.
It’s roughly equivalent to JPY, at the time of the game’s original Japanese release. For ports or Localizations they’ll be largely the same as their original Japanese counterparts.
Some things in the games are skewed incredibly optimistically, like housing and renovations.
Furniture, decoration, and clothing costs are relatively accurate though.
I’m not saying it isn’t important all, I just think that it’s equally important to work to defeat systems and encourage people to take said action, as opposed to just trying to spread fear and despair. Which is what a lot of films about privacy and surveillance end up doing. There’s a name for that, it’s called fearmongering. Obviously we can’t stop the media from doing that but we should at least not do it ourselves.
And for any useful idiots who try and whine about how breaking those technological measures violates Terms of Service, terms of service in software that was handed to you is as worthless as the agreement at the bottom of my other comment. You need technological or practical enforcement of it for it to make sense. Like on this site the Terms of service are enforced with a ban if you don’t follow them. On the other hand software terms of use have no such enforcement, as anyone who participates in [email protected] would understand.
Come on Mozilla, what the fuck are you guys doing? You don’t have the luxury of monopoly and you’re going to alienate those few diehard fans who stick with Firefox because alternatives are shit and they all run Chromium even if they aren’t.
Ladybird needs to materialize fast before it’s too late.
I’d go Waterfox, but I really like the on-machine translation in Firefox that Waterfox doesn’t have it.
Just use something else on mobile. I use mull (until it becomes insecure because I think they stopped working on it) and fennec. I also have vanadium, which I think is chromium based, but don’t use it much.
Fennec supports extensions and syncing so it should be okay for most use cases.
You can selfhost it too.
Well, it’s Kubuntu, so yeah, I guess.
But it’s a popular bad distro, so that’s still a problem for a lot of people.
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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.
It’s what’s known as “vulture capitalism” or “parasitic capitalism”,
So, capitalism.
Or please kindly enumerate what other kinds of capitalism provably exist.
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…
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.
My phone is running LineageOS without GAPPS. My browser in Android is cromite. My computers all run Linux and I use Firefox but with the advent of this news, might be changing to more hardened versions of it. I spend next to no effort maintaining my ad blockers past the initial setup, the fact that you have no idea how much work is involved shows that you’re out of your element, and have no idea what you are talking about.
Why did my comment seemingly irk you? Do you feel insecure because you are lazy and adopted a defeatist attitude? It is actually possible to control your devices and data, just because you’re ignorant.
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.
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.
Lmao, no… browsers like LibreWolf have no issues keeping up with updates.
Oh, I wasn’t aware you’d started. You must be a terrible teacher.
That’s because you keep moving goalposts so you don’t have to face the reality that you’re a moron that’s blowing smoke. You stated, “even if you’re putting a massive effort in by using almost exclusively FOSS and maintaining a stack of ad blockers.” That gave it away. With that statement, I know, you’re an idiot and have nooooooooooooo fucking clue how this shit works. And I called you out there… and you conveniently ignored that and changed the subject. So do you want me to explain how easy it is to setup adblocking that requires no maintenance? And then will you admit that you are wrong? Because again, it doesn’t require any maintenance and the smallest of effort to setup initially. I’ll teach you buddy, don’t worry, no cost to you.
Also let’s look at my initial claim, “I selfhost and use mostly FOSS and have ways of blocking 99% of ads and locally control all my IoT so if you’re willing to learn then you don’t have to feel that way. Because I feel in full control and in harmony with everything.”
Two things. 1) I said mostly FOSS, 2) I do feel in harmony with the amount of control and customization I have over my devices which was in response to someone feeling the opposite. You’ve not said anything to counter this. I can easily go through my entire stack on every platform if you are actually interested in learning how these things work. But if not, I will continue to make fun of you for being dumb, I don’t care either way. You’re entertaining me.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but does anyone else feel like technology - specifically consumer tech - kinda peaked over a decade ago? I’m 37, and I remember being awed between like 2011 and 2014 with phones, voice assistants, smart home devices, and what websites were capable of. Now it seems like much of this stuff either hasn’t improved all that much, or is straight up worse than it used to be. Am I crazy? Have I just been out of the market for this stuff for too long?
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