> It's against the Terms of Use to use Firefox to... watch porn?
Firefox isn't a Mozilla service. The Mozilla services are things like account sync, or the review tool they use.
Firefox isn't a Mozilla service. The Mozilla services are things like account sync, or the review tool they use.
Fine by me since I don't use a Mozilla account, but sounds to me like I shouldn't get a Mozilla account either
If you bookmark a collection of data: / blob: links then that would be the outlier scenario where you shouldn’t use any third-party server-involved bookmark syncing service, as presumably they’ll all either break or ban you once they find you using their bookmark table space for data storage.
Good point about Relay.
Do URL stubs of porn titles count as explicitly sexual? They can get pretty raunchy
Though, considering how few people are likely to care about the legal exposure risk of continuing to use Firefox Sync, I don’t imagine this will end up being particularly enforceable in practice.
Do you know any other?
It's pretty odd if you aren't allowed to use their VPN to watch or share porn
- send unsolicited communications (for example cold emailing an employer about a job) - Deceive or mislead (for example inviting your brother over for a surprise party under false pretenses) - Purchase legal controlled products (for example sending the pharmacy a refill for your Xanax) - Collect email addresses without permission (for example putting together a list of emails to contact public officials)
The upside for users in general is such a vpn service tends not to be associated with underbelly behaviour and so isn't blocked from 90% of the web.
Do alcohol companies get shut down when people drink and kill someone with their car?
Did you know that a nonzero percentage of child molesters wear Nike sneakers when they kidnap children? Why doesn't Nike actively try to prevent this?!
So why should a VPN provider need to explicitly dissuade its customers from breaking the law with their service? Why should a web browser be afraid of being on the hook when someone breaks the law via the web?
I have and continue to use my hammer, which is none but an Estwing, for demolition work. Often there are no nails directly involved and when there are, I use a prybar. I have also used it to open beers, 'fix' computers, as well as procure therapy to various things that plead for it. On several occasions I've even used it tied to a rope to throw over an unreachable tree limb.
That this may be used as evidence in court against me, well, has me almost welcoming a firing squad. What a silly silly planet.
Is there any hope for Midori?
A more appropriate comparison is a real-estate company which manages corporate offices, leasing out a corporate office space. That space is being offered under the proviso that NO brothel is opened there, underage or otherwise. Now, they won't ask you what you're doing and generally won't look but if there is a single complaint of you running an underage brothel, they look, and see any brothel activity, instead of wasting time they'll simply evict you and avoid the entire mess and waste of resources spent investigating. Easy.
The alternative is having to painstakingly prove the wrong thing was done, which is notoriously difficult, and ties up a lot of resources.
That's a bad idea, and a badly formed policy. The legal team and the marketing team need to talk things over here, a wee bit more.
The fact that Firefox isn't a "Mozilla Service" seems irrelevant.
They might clarify that in the agreement. I doubt many people are intimately familiar with Mozilla, Firefox, 'services', etc. to distinguish. I am and I didn't think of it in a brief reading (which is all I have time for).
The entire AUP is prefixed “You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to:”. There’s nothing in the AUP that doesn’t refer to “Mozilla’s services.” When the Firefox TOS explicitly includes this AUP, how could it make sense unless they think of Firefox as one of their services?
At the risk of restating the gp’s quote:
> Your use of Firefox must follow Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy, and you agree that you will not use Firefox to infringe anyone’s rights or violate any applicable laws or regulations.
> Vous ne pouvez pas utiliser les services et produits de Mozilla dans les buts suivants :
I would say porn is probably in the top 3 if not number 1 use for VPNs