> Any software or web page you use is backed by an inscrutable pile of legalese
This isn't the case of all software, fortunately. For free software under the GPL, for instance, you don't need to read the GPL or agree with the GPL to use the software. (The GPL is only giving you additional rights, beyond what copyright already permits.) Specifically, I don't think I am "agreeing" to any terms when using Firefox.
If you use a Linux-based operating system like Debian and free software, you don't need to agree to much legalese, actually.
(OK, this is about terms and conditions, not privacy policies. But privacy policies for free software is about giving additional privacy guarantees -- you are not forced to read it or agree with it.)
You know, just because you take part in or benefit from a system, it doesn't mean you can't critique it at all right? It's better that despite having such terms themselves, that Mozilla's blog chose to highlight a comic that addresses the issue. Your alternative of not casting any stone just dooms us to the status quo and nothing will ever change.
This silly statement is so common that there are comics like these in response:
> You know, just because you take part in or benefit from a system, it doesn't mean you can't critique it at all right?
No, but it does mean your critique is necessarily compromised, if not necessarily in a fatal way. Intellectual honesty requires this compromise be addressed, but contempt is a great deal easier.
Compare the length and complexity of any of those links to any other random legal terms on the internet. I found the Firefox Terms of Use much easier to comprehend than Visual Studio, let alone quite a lot shorter.
Any software or web page you use is backed by an inscrutable pile of legalese that you "agreed to" without reading, and may or may not be enforceable.