mimasama

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by mimasama 2y ago
The ToU is clearly referring to the browser, not the other products of the Firefox brand family. The literal first two paragraphs: > Firefox is free and open source web browser software, built by a community of thousands from all over th
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by mimasama 2y ago
Yeah, it would be like saying everything I write and draw into my Acer laptop means I now give permission for Acer the company to use my content. It's bonkers.
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by mimasama 2y ago
Make sure the third party build you choose doesn't use official Firefox branding too.
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by mimasama 2y ago
> Does this mean these Terms of Use apply only to precompiled binaries downloaded from Mozilla, and not to copies built from source code by linux distributions? I think it applies if the browser is "Firefox" in name and brandin
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Mozilla's new terms of use are out of step with Firefox's direct competition(quippd.com)
179 points by mimasama 2y ago|2 comments
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by mimasama 2y ago
The only ToS of a free software should be the chosen free software license (and if applicable, a trademark policy). Anything else is questionable.
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by mimasama 2y ago
> without access to mainstream security patches They do have access to them. The lead developer and project owner has sec bug access in bugzilla. But vulnerabilities in newer Mozilla have over time become less and less relevant in Pale M
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by mimasama 2y ago
> known and unfixed security bugs Which are..?
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by mimasama 2y ago
> They could use this for good if they tried simply from having enough momentum to kill anything bad dead by not implementing it. Funnily enough though a lot of web developers really hate Apple for this (going as far as claiming "Sa
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by mimasama 2y ago
That's because they've kept the UI from before Australis was rolled out in Firefox 29. The Australis UI revamp back then was very controversial; it's funny to see how the complaints of Firefox "becoming more like Chrome&
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Cloudflare breaks CAPTCHA again for the 3rd time this year for nonmajor browsers(forum.palemoon.org)
10 points by mimasama 2y ago|5 comments
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by mimasama 3y ago
Ah, just saw this right now. The apologies is much appreciated, thanks for that. It seems though AFAICS, that the customer in question is not fully convinced[1] that this incident will not happen again. Are there going to be any concrete st
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Cloudflare and Hetzner threatens to takedown Fediverse instance because of yuri(bsky.app)
37 points by mimasama 3y ago|21 comments
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by mimasama 3y ago
The yuri (Japanese lesbian art) in question is obviously not CSAM as you can see in the Bluesky thread, as both women depicted in the artwork are fully clothed and don't look like children at all. The fediverse instance being talked ab