Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox
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Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a 'Terms of Use' policy — a first for the

From the new terms:

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

  • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I read the article but still don’t understand what this means:

    You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet.

    When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

    I’ve seen corporate mission statements that were clearer.

    • HereIAm@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      I read it as “you type a URL in the address bar, we’ll take you there. You want to search for something using the search bar? We got you, we’ll forward your search to the search engine of your choice. All free of charge.”

      It’s just worded in such generic legal wording it makes you gag. But them pointing it out so explicitly just makes me more suspicious lol. I think it’s fine for now, just another wall of text to keep an eye on for any future modifications.

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        A more factual and literal reading:

        You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox,

        “If we deem anything as “necessary to operate Firefox”, such as selling your data, then you automatically grants us all rights to do that”.

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
          11·
          16 hours ago

          I think there’s a difference between “operate Firefox” and “continue to develop Firefox”.

          because while operating firefox costs no money (the software runs on my hardware), developing firefox does cost money (mozilla has to pay employees, …). so, selling your data might be necessary to make mozilla money sothat they can pay their employees, but it’s not necessary for “operate Firefox”.

          • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            There is not, at any point, a real necessity to sell your clients so that you can pay your employees, or viceversa.

            Pitting the workers against the consumers is the strategy of oligarchy bourgeois.