Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data ...

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.

That’s it #Mozilla, I’m done with you.

I’ve given you folks plenty of chances to prove yourselves to be in good faith in the past years, and you’ve broken all of them.

Sponsored links on my home page? It’s ok, everybody needs to make money somehow - I can just disable them.

Google as the default search engine, making it harder to add custom search engines too? It’s ok, everybody needs to make money somehow.

Going all over the place (VPN, Pocket, Relay…) instead of focusing the precious resources at hand on what all Mozilla users love and need (Firefox), all while abandoning the other project loved by users (Thunderbird)? It’s ok, everybody needs to make money.

Purchasing an ads company and start talking overnight about data collection and “ethical ads”? It’s ok, everybody needs to make money somehow.

(That was however the moment I stopped donating to Mozilla. If you want to make money by scooping up and selling user data like everyone else, then you don’t need my donations).

But the latest T&Cs left me completely horrified.

A nonexclusive, global license to use your data as they please without notice is as bad as an EULA shoveled down tour throat by the likes of Google and Microsoft.

Mozilla is now dead to me. I’ve already replaced all my desktop instances with Librewolf on my desktop (but I still have to use Firefox on mobile, as there are no Librewolf mobile versions, and alternatives like Cromite don’t give the chance of installing extensions).

I’m open to discuss any alternatives.

We all knew that Mozilla was a company ethically in decline, and that after losing the bribe money from Google they would have become more aggressive and unscrupulous in finding new monetization strategies.

We should have been ready for this moment instead of sticking to the “least of the evils” for so long.

And while Librewolf may fill the gaps at least for now, we urgently need a new browser engine that is neither based on Blink nor Gecko.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/