02-27-2025 10:51 AM
After your disaster of ToU was released today you responded with an update on the blog which is blatantly false and misleading:
"UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice."
This text does not matter, the only text that matters is the text of the ToU and that pretty much gives you the right to do whatever with the data entered. That is completely insane. And even if it isn't to be used for anything other than described in the privacy notice: the language describing the uses is so vague and encompassing it provides no protection.
It is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone even considered writing this text, let alone publish it. I have been using Firefox for 10+ years at this point and am extremely disappoint in the anti-privacy direction the Mozilla foundation seems to be taking Firefox. But perhaps getting a CEO whose experience was blatant anti-consumer and anti-privacy AirBNB should have been a clear sign Mozilla no longer cares about it's mission statement at all. I no longer believe it does as all evidence points to the contrary.