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Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon.
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.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
Update: See below in the thread for their clarification.
So if they decide ads based on my artwork/writing help me "navigate, experience, and interact with online content," they have the right to steal it from me and use it in their "privacy-respecting" ads?
@mttaggart Will have to give it a read later but I hope this doesn't affect forks like librewolf
@_tissa_ it can't. There is not an EULA to run the code. If you download and run Firefox through an installer, yeah it does affect you, because you're presented (I assume) the EULA.
Any forks or people who compile it themselves aren't subject to it.
@mttaggart
@stinerman @_tissa_ @mttaggart Does this include precompiled packages like those distrobuted by linux package managers?
@TruelyNotARobot I'm not a lawyer but I don't see how. You were never presented with these conditions. If Mozilla thinks that they can say "this is available under a free software license but oh there's this other website where we take away your rights that you were never notified about" that's uhhhhh not the way it works.
@stinerman @_tissa_ @mttaggart I figured as much, but honestly you can never be too careful with this legal stuff.
@TruelyNotARobot @_tissa_ @mttaggart now if you use Sync that's a completely different story altogether.
@stinerman
Has anyone forked the sync host software? I know there's Pocket, or used to be, but I'd love to send my bookmarks elsewhere.
@TruelyNotARobot @_tissa_ @mttaggart
@hobs @stinerman @TruelyNotARobot @_tissa_ @mttaggart if it's just bookmarks you are concerned about you can export them manually or use a tool like https://www.xbrowsersync.org/ it's open source and encrypted and works with all browsers. There's an APK you can get and keep up to date with Obtainium for Android devices as well.
@cienmilojos
I like my books live syncing from my phone to my laptops desktops. Anywhere I want.
@stinerman @TruelyNotARobot @_tissa_ @mttaggart