Paul L

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social
Btw How may channels have actually spoken with a contact at Mozilla to invite them to discuss this in an interview before just reporting and telling others to stop using any/all of their products?

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social
I just think there’s an inherent contradiction between assuming that Mozilla are secretly planning to do bad things while making it public by publishing terms of use with constraints defined by the privacy policy.

If they were really trying to be secretive about it as you and others have said they could simply not publish any terms for implicit use at all.

I’m disappointed at how many other people have jumped on the same bandwagon attacking a FOSS product without nuance.

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social
You surely do accept that every browser in existence needs to access the data used to display web pages (they are downloaded and the DOM built and rendered locally).

They never had published terms before but the browser is doing the same things right now to function that they didn’t legally spell out before.

Legal are famously bad at writing in plain language esp when describing technology functions unless skilled in both areas or in a joint team - Mozilla aren’t alone in that.

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social
I would rather wait to see what else changes before jumping to conclusions that require assuming bad faith and saying that Mozilla must be as bad as any other until proven otherwise.

Mozilla could choose to show a notification with each browser update if the terms or privacy policy of Firefox changes, statements that they won’t is also an opinion rather than a known fact.

Users still choose when/if to update browser package so musing about a “kill-switch” is pure speculation.

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social
It might seem obvious, but anyone who offers web browser software, their browser has access to the data fetched by requests and anything typed into a form, included files attached to POST data for upload, any bookmarks you create, and the history.

Not surprised if after all the fuss it turns out Mozilla legal decided (for some reason) they needed explicitly state this, and other browser makers merely assume you implicitly accept it when you install or update a browser.