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Thunderbird "won't be adopting the firefox terms of use" (mastodon.online)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/opensource

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26407305

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It doesn't work like that. Many people believe that the ToS was added to make Mozilla legally able to train AIs on the collected data. Using emails would be more efficient but also much more shady which Mozilla doesn't want because their products are inferior in everything except for privacy claims already.

[–] RonSijm 4 points 2 days ago

Many people believe that the ToS was added to make Mozilla legally able to train AIs on the collected data.

"Don’t attribute to malice what is easily explained by incompetence"

So yea Mozilla wrote some terms that where ambiguous and could be interpreted in different ways, and 'many people believed' that they did this intentionally and had the worst intentions possible by their interpretation of the new ToS

Then Mozilla rewrote that ToS after seeing how people were interpreting the original ToS:
https://www.theverge.com/news/622080/mozilla-revising-firefox-terms-of-use-data

And yea, now 'many people will believe' that 'Mozilla revised their decision to do this after the backslash' - OR, it was never their intention and now phrased it better after the confusion

People just want to get their pitchforks out and start drama at any possible opportunity without evidence of wrongdoing... Mozilla added stupid stuff to the ToS, ok yea fair enough - but if they actually did "steal user data" - this would be very easily detectable with Wireshark or something