They made a shitty change to their TOS regarding sharing user data with advertisers, then backtracked (appropriately, imho). It’s the same issue as always - Firefox costs Mozilla millions of dollars to develop and maintain, and it’s entirely funded by advertising companies. I personally think Mozilla does a pretty good job of balancing interests, but that is a long term problematic relationship for privacy respecting software. I don’t think any of the forks solve that problem, as they are still dependent on all of Mozilla’s development money to keep going, and Chrome based browsers are even worse. Modern browsers are just too damned expensive! Anyway, the drama: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/?guccounter=1
I’m being earnest, how has Firefox caved in and to who?
They made a shitty change to their TOS regarding sharing user data with advertisers, then backtracked (appropriately, imho). It’s the same issue as always - Firefox costs Mozilla millions of dollars to develop and maintain, and it’s entirely funded by advertising companies. I personally think Mozilla does a pretty good job of balancing interests, but that is a long term problematic relationship for privacy respecting software. I don’t think any of the forks solve that problem, as they are still dependent on all of Mozilla’s development money to keep going, and Chrome based browsers are even worse. Modern browsers are just too damned expensive! Anyway, the drama: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/?guccounter=1