Fwiw, fyi, for all the fedi-peeps apparently losing their minds today over the newly published #Firefox #ToS #EULA info. Firstly IMO heaps of you are wilfully misreading / selectively quoting extracts sans context, then extrapolating the entire universe from a small piece of fairy cake. Secondly, if you'd still rather play safe than sorry [or do something utterly batshit crazy like jumping to a chromium browser ffs 🙄🤦‍♀️], why not do a spot of proactive #hardening?

Eg, per https://sciops.net/information/technology/firefox : [& pasting here an extract from my user.js to illustrate some of it]...

user_pref("browser.send_pings", false);<br>user_pref("beacon.enabled", false);<br>user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnable", false);<br>user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false);<br>user_pref("accessibility.force_disabled", 1);<br>

Ensign: There’s a flood of lizard creatures coming from the south, a flurry of lizard creatures coming from the east, and a deluge of lizard creatures coming from the northwest.

Captain: Dear God. It’s the Perfect Gorn.

#StarTrek
#TOS

An email and documents reveal Google's Project Nimbus deal with Israel isn't bound by Google's general TOS, but by an ‘adjusted’ TOS crafted by Google and Israel. 🇮🇱💻 #Google #ProjectNimbus #Israel #TechPolicy #DataPrivacy #TOS #TechDeals #CloudComputing #PrivacyConcerns

Children are considered incapable of giving #consent because they cannot fully understand #contracts presented to them.

If an advanced degree is required to read a #TOS contract, ( https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwbg7j/online-contract-terms-of-service-are-incomprehensible-to-adults-study-finds ) then only people with advanced degrees can be considered to have consented.

Perhaps this is so obvious that it isn't: it is not possible to trick, punish, or exhaust people into giving consent. They might give something, but it cannot be consent.