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.

  • excral@feddit.org
    35·
    11 days ago

    Does having a ToS mean that Firefox is no longer FOSS? Freedom 0 of FOSS is: “The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose”. Isn’t that violated if you can only use the software under the condition of accepting terms of service?

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      11 days ago

      Arguably no. It’s not “you may not use this if you don’t agree.” It’s “the software does this and here is your warning.”

      Still incredibly fucked.