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From the new terms:

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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I await to see technical enforcement of it. Anyone can write rules on a piece of paper, but without collecting information physically, or having someone enforce it, it's useless words. And so far it seems a lot of people and companies make rules and claims without technological enforcement.

I imagine though at worst you can simply block all of mozilla's domains through /etc/hosts and their IPs or IP range with a firewall rule. Still sucks but you do not need to comply with it, no matter what anyone says. It's the technical aspects that are the most thorny, not the words on a page.


By reading this comment you hearby agree to send Draconic NEO no less than $400 in the currency of AnimalCrossing bells, applies for each time you read it, and re-reads of words also count. You will also be required to stand on your head for 30 minutes for every instance of reading this comment or re-reading a word. Compliance with these terms is mandatory.

[–] Broadfern 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I’m curious about the conversion rate from USD to Bells, and also which AC version it’s applicable to. /lh /hj

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

It's roughly equivalent to JPY, at the time of the game's original Japanese release. For ports or Localizations they'll be largely the same as their original Japanese counterparts.

Some things in the games are skewed incredibly optimistically, like housing and renovations.
Furniture, decoration, and clothing costs are relatively accurate though.

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[–] NocturnalMorning 23 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Fantastic, guess I'll be looking for an alternative to Firefox.

[–] BroBot9000 23 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

From what I can tell the general consensus is LibreWolf.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] NocturnalMorning 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Im not even seeing that as an option when I search the playstore for that.

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[–] BroBot9000 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

That one is new to me. Just heard about one called Floorp. Anyone hear anything about it?

[–] wizblizz 23 points 13 hours ago

Omfg I'm sick of this bullshit

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sigh.

Is it so hard to just be an ethical company? Must every product and service become enshittified?

Couldn't they have just made these "features" an add-on that the user can choose to install (and agree to a separate ToS to use), rather than have it baked into the browser code?

There was a time when you could use the same piece of software or service for decades without worry. Now, I feel like I'm replacing software every few months because of enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Is it so hard to just be an ethical company?

Well, assuming by company you mean a for-profit entity, then yes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I mean company*

*organisation, non-profit, for-profit, family-owned, corporation, etc.

Why is it so difficult to be ethical? Why the hell is being unethical rewarded by our society? We have everything so ass backwards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Because in order to create a society that rewards ethical behavior, you have to get rid of the all the unethical people in positions of power and privilege, and they are the ones with the power to actually change society, because society rewards unethical behavior?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

There are lots of ethical non profits and organizations, with a big asterisk that of course ethics are relative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I agree with you. I don't think there are any ethical way to make money. You always have to exploit someone or something affecting third parties. Yes, you could reduce to minimal expression, but it will never going to be zero. And at the end, I think this is the problem with most forms of life, the predatory model. With some plants and bacteria exception. But yeah, nature knows nothing about justice because it is a human construct, but still...

[–] MrWafflesNBacon 18 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Bruh. Is there a Firefox fork on Android? I have Librewolf on desktop but I don't think they have an Android app sadly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

Fennec is one for Android. Seems okay so far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

As another user mentioned, there's Fennec. There's also Iceraven.

[–] scholar 12 points 13 hours ago

Doesn't apply to forks, but still...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The green chicken flag strikes again. It may be a small thing, but i knew the logo change was the first step towards corpo bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Ohh look... CEO can fuck ur wife BC ToS says so right here 🤡

[–] Phoenix3875 1 points 8 hours ago

Assuming this refers to a new feature, how are they going to implement it? If the browser e.g. phones home, people would be able to spot the change in the source code and just create a fork?

[–] DirkMcCallahan 6 points 13 hours ago

What in the everloving fuck?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

o7 Firefox. It was a good run.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 3 points 13 hours ago

aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHH!!

FUCK!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 hours ago

Time to start blocking all FF domains and IP addresses. Just like Facebook.

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