We’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated Privacy Notice.
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.
ok, I guess I’ll find a different browser…
If you want to stay on the Firefox fork I personally recommend trying out Zen Browser
That seems to be a good recommendation. It works and what they say about themselves sounds good!
Thanks a lot!
What if I do not accept the terms? Can I disable whatever features (or antifeatures) necessitate these terms?
Can I compile from source to avoid the terms? If not, then Firefox non-free software, so I’ll use a fork of the last free release. If so, then I will compile it from source, disabling the terms if necessary.
When do the terms become effective? Can I use the previous LTS version to avoid the terms?
I want to ask them all these questions, but I don’t know where.
I’m fairly sure you’ll be able to avoid accepting the “terms of use” just as you can avoid all the other usual Firefox bullshit — telemetry, pocket, A/B testing, sponsored links, ad attribution, and so on — by messing around with the configuration in one way or another.
Switching to one of the forks for me is just a statement that I don’t trust Mozilla any more and want to put a little more distance between me and them, not really of immediate practical benefit. It’s also only a temporary respite, at the rate things are going Mozilla might not exist at all in a few years. Hopefully Servo will be ready by then.
Hello from librewolf. It’s been my secondary browser for a while. Guess it’s time to move all the passwords and css over.
