Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox | The Mozilla Blog
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UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of t

Apparently mozilla wants the right to get data from firefox users. But not like general information, they want to know what data you upload or download through firefox.

Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example.

What the fuck? I use firefox because I want privacy!!! Not sharing my information with a company.

We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. WHY DO YOU NEED MY DATA TO MAKE FIREFOX WORK???

  • Vivendi@lemmy.zipEnglish
    116·
    9 hours ago

    Typical anti-firefox FUD. These are all quite normal things to have in policies for CYA reasons to offer features. bUt mUh dATa!! 1!1!1!1!11 fuck off and live in a mountain, or use a almost useless obscure browser like Netsurf (that can’t load 90% of the web)

    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
      131·
      8 hours ago

      so why weren’t they in there before? moz’s lawyers have obviously never thought they even need a policy before now, so what changed?

      • Vivendi@lemmy.zipEnglish
        15·
        5 hours ago

        Because they’re going to offer optional AI integration in the browser

        Look, we are in the minority. Lemmy has like, what, some thousands of users at best. Most people want features like AI, and firefox has to offer them to gain users instead of bleeding like a stuck pig as they’re doing now

        And the sentiment against AI on lemmy absolutely sucks dick. I’m tempted to go back to Reddit because this place is luddite.ml at this point. People who’ve never spun up a local model on their GPU talk like they have trifecta PhD creds in comp sci

        • pogmommy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Why the hell does my HTML renderer need a baked-in frontend for a privacy nightmare that requires I sign over rights for every keystroke even if I don’t use it? If Mozilla really wants to roll it out themselves, make it an extension available for download and tie your abysmal terms of use to that, don’t upend your entire reputation for the latest big tech trend.

          And the sentiment against AI on lemmy absolutely sucks dick. I’m tempted to go back to Reddit because this place is luddite.ml at this point. People who’ve never spun up a local model on their GPU talk like they have trifecta PhD creds in comp sci

          Oh poor you, how dare people appropriately respond to foil-plated shit being advertised to us as platinum decor. Stay away from glue on days you use your computer