If your #EULA bans “unlawful content”, you're gonna have to think what do when being #trans is made illegal. Are you banning trans & other LGBTQ+ people? or allow some illegal content/activity?

Have decided to give #ZenBrowser another go, but with conditions:

• #Sidebery, not its unreliable* & not-my-cup-of-tea native tabs
• #FirefoxSecondSidebar https://github.com/aminought/firefox-second-sidebar, not its unsatisfactory native #WebPanels

In case anyone wonders, this [temporary?] change from my hitherto daily [#FirefoxNightly + #Sidebery + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar] has nothing to do with the recent global #FUD wrt Mozilla's #TOU / #EULA, but instead is due to the aesthetic pleasantness of & the desire to use its #SplitTabView #TabSplitView #TabPaneView; two undeniable advantages over Nightly.

* the Zen subreddit is full of users posting that Zen spontaneously lost all their tabs, or all their pinned tabs, or all their unpinned tabs. In my own past months of using Zen with its native #Workspaces & tabs, it also happened to me, twice, & it is most exasperating.

@tokyo_0 Why are peeps stating then requoting this utter bollocks? Bloody hell.

inescapable ad telemetry

Here's how to opt-out, directly in the FF Settings / Preferences UI [pic].

Here's how to force it [if you QAnonly distrust the UI] via either about:config or in a user.js file:

user_pref("browser.send_pings", false);
user_pref("beacon.enabled", false);
user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnable", false);
user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false);
user_pref("accessibility.force_disabled", 1);

Has nobody on the interwebz got any critical thinking skills left?

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#Amazon #Alexa, #Apple #Siri, #Google #Assistant and #Microsoft #Cortana are just modern reiterations of #BonziBuddy aka. #Spyware!

• And if you don't believe me, read the #ToS|es and #EULA|s again, #TouchGrass and ask a lawyer at your own expense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L958sMz1kWs

How about instead of a simple "agree" checkbox there would be a complex quiz testing that you actually understand the #TOS of something you are signing?

#Windows apparently has an #EULA file somewhere on the system, that if you click it by mistake, will ask you to re-sign the #microsoft #software agreement and if you just simply ignore it and close the window, windows will shut down. And next time you start it, the EULA will be presented automatically again.

#GNU / #Linux license has a term that you don't need to agree to it to simply use the software.