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The Forced Firefox Terms of Use (ToS) Clickwrap Agreement is Here (www.quippd.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/technology@beehaw.org

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When Mozilla announced their Terms of Use a few months ago, they told us that they would be asking us to acknowledge it at a later date. That day is here, and I took a quick look at it.

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I just got the 138.0.3 update and restarted Firefox. No such dialog to click through, I have not clicked to agree yet. I am on Linux, where distribution maintainer created the package to install and download. Did they disable this? Or maybe I did not got this dialog as I already opted out from data collection, through the settings in Firefox.

I'm confused.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh its not enabled for Linux?

Chris Peterson [:cpeterson] Comment 19 • 7 days ago • Edited

For 138.0.3, next week's dot release, we want ToS to be enabled for the following percentages of new users:
Windows = 100% Update: stay at 50%
macOS = 25%
Linux = 0%
For 139.0, next major release, we want ToS to be enabled for the following percentages of new users:
Windows = 100%
macOS = 100%
Linux = 0%

Source: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1959542 (Scroll down, as I don't know how to link to this specific reply)

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, it is also not enabled for Linux, and your distribution might not be using a Mozilla binary anyway.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

Right now, it is for new users only. Existing users are going to have to opt in at some later date.