Mozilla plans to put the new Terms of Use in front of users soon. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/
And actually asking you to acknowledge it is an important step, so we’re making it a part of the standard product experience starting in early March for new users and later this year for existing ones. Having seen it, and continuing to use firefox, users will have accepted it. That's what the "as you indicate with your use of Firefox" language is doing in there. As far as I can tell with clock setting tests, firefox does not behave any differently after that point in time. So how will they do this? I think it will be as simple as https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ getting a link to the TOU, or including it. That page is currently opened in a tab when starting firefox for the 1st time. It does not currently link to the TOU. For existing users, I think a later firefox release will make it pop up the TOU page. I think this will mean that the TOU will apply equally to *all* builds of firefox, including eg from Debian. Debian should protect its users from this, by modifying firefox to not display the TOU on a new install or upgrade, at a minimum. I hope you'll also develop a general policy for dealing with free software that actively exposes its users to harmful click through agreements. That this is happening to such a core component suggests that bug #690495 should have had a different outcome than it did. -- see shy jo
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