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Re:Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video] by Dwedit on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:03AM (#43231779)
Typing on your own computer, and having the draft stored into local storage requires absolutely no policy at all. If anyone else's computer is involved with that, then it's a problem.

Also it makes no sense for a program that runs on your own computer to have "Terms of Use".

Re:Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video] by eipi10_hn on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:33AM (#43232102)
Yes, we all know that. But the ones that "don't want" to know that are the lawyers and the legal entities. Whatever we scream down here, Mozilla Corporation is the one who will face those legal confrontations, and whatever we agree implicitly here with the softwares won't hold candles to those lawyers and courts without explicit legal wordings.
Re:Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video] by db48x on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:07AM (#43231828)
I agree with you, but it seems that a lot of lawyers do not. Most of the other browsers have the same language in their ToS, as do many programs like Microsoft Office.
Re:Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video] by zb3 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:09AM (#43231847)
Exactly, Mozilla just tries to mislead people that their "web services" are indivisible parts of Firefox, but they're not, for me it's a software running on my computer.
Re:Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video] by db48x on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:11AM (#43231883)
I don’t think that they are trying to mislead at all. At no point do they call Firefox a service. Instead they call Pocket a service, and their VPN a service, and so on.