As promised, here is an interview with @ryanleesipes@mastodon.social from #Thunderbird, on the whole #Mozilla and #Firefox terms of use situation.
We talk about why this had to happen, how Thunderbird will handle their own Terms of Use, what’s happening at Mozilla, and what’s changing.
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social @ryanleesipes@mastodon.social
“Why this had to happen”? Well, that’s certainly ominous and gaslight-y. Will #Mozilla next be asserting the right to scrape and sell the contents of our emails as well?
#Thunderbird
@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @ryanleesipes@mastodon.social It actually did have to happen, du to regulator pressures. How it was done isn’t good, IMO, but they did have to add terms of use.
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social
Quoth the ToU announcement:
> the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”
Mozilla is not supposed to be doing any of that!
@ryanleesipes@mastodon.social
@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @ryanleesipes@mastodon.social FWIW, these changes make Firefox not really a viable option anymore in the current political environment, independent of whether the changes “had to happen.”
Such a big change should merit reconsideration of the contract with google rather than the drastic widening of TOS on behalf of all users (esp considering one of the first things I do is disable google as the default search engine).