Comment by kevingadd
1 year ago
Firefox-the-browser isn't a service, it's a product. Their services are things like profile syncing. It makes sense to me that they wouldn't want content on their servers that they could get in legal trouble for hosting.
Comments such as yours are missing the point.
Mozilla's ToS applies for Firefox's use, and this is literally written by Mozilla themselves:
“Your use of Firefox must follow Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy”
There's no distinction between the browser and Mozilla's online services here.
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And even if it were referring only to features such as “profile syncing” (and it doesn't refer only to that), does this mean that people can't have bookmarks to porn? And why would Mozilla care about how people use profile syncing at all? I thought it was e2e encrypted.
How do you square this with the following:
> Mozilla software is made available to you under the terms of the Mozilla Public License 2, a free software license, which gives you the right to run the program for any purpose, to study how it works, to give copies to your friends and to modify it to meet your needs better. There is no separate End User License Agreement (EULA).
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/eula/
It should really be up to Mozilla to make the licensing of their products and the terms of use of their services clear and unambiguous. If users have to figure out how to square Mozilla's legal terms with Mozilla's other legal terms, they've failed.
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Ok, turns out there are separate ToS for the official binaries: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
That's for the court to decide, when you sue Mozilla for remotely bricking your browser.
So, as someone else pointed out, saving bookmarks of porn and using their bookmarks sync service would be a problem.
It's easy to laugh and dismiss that. But what if you're a journalist covering war? You're going to have plenty of bookmarks of graphic violence, and therefore run afoul of this license.
Legal trouble for sexuality and violence? I am sorry, in what jurisdiction are their servers? Iran or North Korea?
Porn bans get proposed in the US on a regular basis.
Got to love the (oblivious) american moral superiority
If they're worried by what might be in the profile data they're syncing they should just make it e2e encrypted so they can't know what's in it
But they clearly want to collect and sell that data
I agree with you but I'm jumping ship because it is not worth it for me to stick with Mozilla.