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0 pointspbhjpbhj8y ago0 comments

That lack of permissions make this illegal IMO. CFAA in USA and CMA in UK both make unauthorised access and unauthorised modification of a computer a crime.

I've used FF since before it was FF, and I've installeded it on umpteen other people's computers; strongly advocating for it. Since they sacked that guy for not conforming to a specific liberal ideology they seem to have gone batshit crazy ... what happened? Was he their main privacy advocate or something?

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DarronWyke8y ago

Hahaha. You gave them permission when you agreed to their TOS. But you didn't read it, did you?

kuschku8y ago

ToS terms that aren’t either expected by the user, or explained in plain text without having to click through anything, are considered null and void in the EU.

By that definition, this would be unallowed modification of the computer of the user, and fall under the various hacking acts.

The more interesting thing is that this has also been rolled out to german government computers, which mostly used to use Firefox, but due to previous troubles with CliqZ and the Google Analytics in the addon menus, have already moved on to other browsers.

DarronWyke8y ago

>ToS terms that aren’t either expected by the user, or explained in plain text without having to click through anything, are considered null and void in the EU.

You mean like the TOS and EULA you agree to when you install the browser? That would qualify as "expected by the user" and "explained in plain text" both.

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0 pointspbhjpbhj8y ago0 comments

That lack of permissions make this illegal IMO. CFAA in USA and CMA in UK both make unauthorised access and unauthorised modification of a computer a crime.

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DarronWyke8y ago

Hahaha. You gave them permission when you agreed to their TOS. But you didn't read it, did you?

kuschku8y ago

ToS terms that aren’t either expected by the user, or explained in plain text without having to click through anything, are considered null and void in the EU.

By that definition, this would be unallowed modification of the computer of the user, and fall under the various hacking acts.

DarronWyke8y ago

>ToS terms that aren’t either expected by the user, or explained in plain text without having to click through anything, are considered null and void in the EU.

You mean like the TOS and EULA you agree to when you install the browser? That would qualify as "expected by the user" and "explained in plain text" both.

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