Nice try: focus on the particulars, ignore the big issue.
@mozillaofficial@mozillaofficial reacted once more to the outcry regarding the introduction of Terms of Use to #Firefox. Instead of addressing the fact that neither Firefox needs or it is desirable to its users that it has Terms of Use, thet propose to make changes to the terms, clarifying things.
Their changes are meaningless: even if you were only focused on the fact that their Terms were bad, well - they still are. But with this announcement also comes a clear “justification” for it all:
“In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners”
This is what you do NOT want your web browser to do, but now apparently Mozilla is in the data broker business and the browser is their means towards that data (in order to be commercially viable, no less). They are not going to move away from this - but in doing so they’re definitively moving away from the software freedom community.
It’s a shame but we’ll survive, we always do. For now, firefox forks will see their user numbers grow. If Mozilla will be able to survive a shift like this, that’s another question entirely. I am nowadays inclined to hope they won’t.