Not a bad idea. I’ll try to crosspost that news a few times later during the weekend to help build the bad behaviour portfolio.

Well, you’ll need dopamine and serotonin for all the new product spam mails you can get!

but isn’t one of the job of the police supposed to actually check people’s ID?

Define “people’s”, because not doing so is how we get into a police state and that was some Germany shit. Everyone? A subset at random? A subset at convenience? A subset based on how brown they look?

Matrix

I hope you mean XMPP / Jabber? Matrix is as open and chatty as Trump is when servicing Musk.

They didn’t drop them because of money costs, where did you get such a statement?

In any event they didn’t really have much of a choice, even if they dropped the ball by not simply resurfacing the old SMS product they did and do have. Having SMS and have people assume it was private because it was on Signal had already caused various issues, of the kind that causes bad mouth-to-mouth for your service. Signal’s response, while adequate, was also lazy.

If anything they have human rights. There’s also the minimum set of implicit rights that are prerequisite for the concept of eg.: allowing foreigners to request asylum. Now if your country didn’t sign in those conventions, that’s a whole ¿nother horde of issues.

Don’t they have universal unlocks for suitcases? They can just take a phone / laptop out, disassemble it quickly to clone the hard drive (or sometimes not even that, just power it on and use any of the various Israeli exploits they’ve bought) and presto, you can go on your merry way.

In their eyes, foreigners don’t have rights.

Simplest safest way has existed since the 90s:

[ ] Yes I confirm I am of required legal age

The screw-ups keep mounting like they want to be Google.

They (and we)'ve got to admit, the solution is not going to come from within their (managerial) ranks.

At this point I’d be happy to offer my services as a BDFL for Mozilla, at but a small fraction of the wages of any of their C-suites.

You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to:

Do anything illegal or otherwise violate applicable law,

So is Mozilla saying that you can not use Firefox to access pirated media, recommend abortion clinics, denounce the Palestinian genocide, etc?

There is not, at any point, a real necessity to sell your clients so that you can pay your employees, or viceversa.

Pitting the workers against the consumers is the strategy of oligarchy bourgeois.

I’m going to stick to Firefox for the time being at least for the clients where I managed to get Firefox ESR accepted. For everything else, it might be the time to switch to Librewolf. Among other advantages, they have enabled jxl support.

Which I’d consider not a variable anylonger tbh: anything on the internet that is not put behind a login wall should be assumed as scrapped, machines can work 24/7 like humans and downloading is easy.

Like sure, we gotta fight that, but technology for open access is not the field where that fight has to be fought.

A more factual and literal reading:

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox,

“If we deem anything as “necessary to operate Firefox”, such as selling your data, then you automatically grants us all rights to do that”.

We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible.

You have that! It’s implied by provision when you distribute your software under eg.: GPL!

Is it so hard to just be an ethical company?

Companies, by definition, can not be ethical.

What we need is for Mozilla Fd to become a employee coöp.

While you are factually correct, Firefox is explicitly stating here that they have the right to terminate an individual’s use of their browser, a freedom that was protected under the MPL.

Shit, just noticed this. This means Firefox stops being FOSS and can’t any longer be distributed by several distros, right?

I wonder if Debian is going to restart Iceweasel…

May I suggest we switch to a gopher or gemini internet?

Honestly you already start at paragraph 1 with a wrong premise and then go down from there. Allow me to point you to the very beginning, to your first emphasis:

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox,

This doesn’t mean you’re giving them a license to do whatever they want with your data, it means you’re giving them the ability to use that data explicitly as you choose to navigate the web.

Here’s the trick: they are not operating Firefox, we are. It’s a system that runs locally and under our instruction on our devices. When I type something in the URL bar, or when I click Open File, or when I mouse over the screen, Mozilla doesn’t have to do anything: everyhting happens locally. No data should be being transmitted or be processed over their systems: Firefox is not a remote desktop / “live service” application.

…Unless…

And there you have it. That’s why those terms are here.