Comment on Firefox version 126 introduces the collection of search data telemetry.
jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 4 months agoAh right, makes sense. I take it you read the EULA in its entirety before you ever downloaded Mozilla in the first place? Because if you didn’t, you missed the part where you gave them permission to do exactly that.
Canary9341@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Lawyers love that trick.
jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 4 months ago
There’s no trick to it. If you don’t agree to the terms of service, feel free to not use the product.
Canary9341@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Any other contract in everyday life would be invalid under these terms; consent must be affirmative and informed. “I have read and accept the terms” is a crude lie that should be illegal but is tolerated for convenience, and which allows to justify all kinds of abuses.
The mozilla case is even worse, because they’ve even bragged about how they respect affirmative consent by asking their users if they allow telemetry (they’ve never really fully complied), and about being respectful of privacy in general. They deserve to be criticized for it, and that’s what people are doing here, but your responses of “if you don’t like it go away, the competition is worse”, is typical corporate ass-kissing and only legitimizes bad behavior.
jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Ok, so stop using their product.