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I'd specifically like to bring attention to the "To market our services." bases for data collection under which Mozilla now claim the right to gather, among other things, Unique identifiers and Browsing data - under which Consent is only considered if they have a legal obligation, and of course it's opt-out.

There is also the incredibly broad "To comply with applicable laws, and identify and prevent harmful, unauthorized or illegal activity." in which Mozilla states they may gather "all data types" - among the defined types include: searches, browsing data (visited URLS), content and any other data.

In support of nebulously defined "identify and prevent harmful," and in response to law enforcement.

That "learn more about" link just goes to a list of definitions.

This is far from the start of this journey, Mozilla have been working towards this point for many years.

A creeping corruption that I think has finally taken hold.

They themselves, say it best:

"Although we’ve historically relied on our open source license for Firefox and public commitments to you, we are building in a much different technology landscape today"

I need a web browser, I need it to be open source. I need it to be secure and maintainable. I need it to work in my best interests.

Firefox is no longer that browser, I'll be working to move off of it. I don't think there is an obvious place to go, yet.

@90sScriptKiddiw @sarahjamielewis

It's worth mentioning that the Ladybird devs considered a PR that changed pronouns to be "introducing politics we don't want" last year.

Doesn't mean that it's not worth keeping an eye on, but I'd watch the politics and/or for a well-resourced fork.

@sakiamu @sarahjamielewis Oh that sucks, any alternatives that don't consider basic inclusiveness to be a problem? :|

@90sScriptKiddiw @sarahjamielewis Closest thing I've got right now is Firefox forks. Folks elsewhere in the thread might have ideas