Terms of use and privacy changes for Firefox

There is a fair amount of unhappiness on the Internet about the announcementfrom Mozilla about a new "terms ofuse" agreement and an updatedprivacy notice for the Firefox browser.

Firefox will always continue to add new features, improve existingones, and test new ideas. We remain dedicated to making Firefoxopen source, but we believe that doing so along with an officialTerms of Use will give you more transparency over your rights andpermissions as you use Firefox. And actually asking you toacknowledge it is an important step, so we're making it a part ofthe standard product experience starting in early March for newusers and later this year for existing ones.

Specifically, the apparentremoval of a promise to not sell users' personal data has drawnattention.

(See also: thisanalysis by Michael Taggart. "So, is this Mozilla 'going evil?'Nah, prolly not. But it is at best clumsy, and a poor showing if they wantme to believe they care about Firefox, rather than the data it canprovide".)