Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

antdude

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/ from https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1iyuvjf/introducing_a_terms_of_use_and_updated_privacy/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1iz1ylk/introducing_a_terms_of_use_and_updated_privacy/

Somewhat-Reticent

LibreWolf ?

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Somewhat-Reticent LibreWolf ?

Good thought.

I'm going to try it.

HELLFIRE

Snark in title courtesy of and credit to TheRegister XD XD : https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/mozilla_introduces_terms_of_use/ -- Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke

... Sadly, it looks like the assessment of Moz by former Netscape coder Jamie Zawinski was not far off the mark. He also links to his own earlier criticisms, none of which we can really fault. This seems like a good time to remind readers that there are other browsers out there based on the Firefox codebase, including our own go-to Waterfox, as well as the tiling Zen browser which has now reached beta. Others that happen not to press our buttons quite so much, but may appeal more to you, include the security-centric LibreWolf and the customization-heavy Floorp. Other projects showing less recent activity are Pulse and Mercury. Still in active development, but based on older versions of the Firefox codebase, are PaleMoon and Basilisk. Most venerable of all is the continuing fork of the original all-in-one Netscape suite, Seamonkey. We're sad to note that its release engineer William Andrew Gianopoulos died in January. Whether or not one agrees with the outrage over the TOU changes, the fact remains that Mozilla is now in the advertising business. Use that information as you wish.

Regards

Somewhat-Reticent

HELLFIRE the fact remains that Mozilla is now in the "privacy-preserving"advertising business.

"Fixed." ( Some debate degrees of anonymization versus profiling; negotiations continue. )
Controlled Second-party ads may be tolerable, if the First party responsibly vets.
Bringing an endless swarm of third-parties expands endlessly and erodes security.