Firefox Terms of Use
Effective February 25, 2025
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/
"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."
so, let it be clear:
I DO NOT CONSENT to Mozilla Corp. accessing or using ANYTHING i type in my browser, whether to serve ads, train LLMs or ANYTHING.
@jz I see that text on [1], but higher up I see "These Terms only apply to the Executable Code version of Firefox, not the Firefox source code." So they <s>'re irrelevant</s> _don't apply directly to_ [edit] @debian @[email protected] .
The #Debian wiki [2] has a list - apparently dating back to 2018 - of about 20 parameters to prevent firefox automatic connections. The wiki won't update itself.
[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#Disabling_automatic_connections
@boud @debian @[email protected]
Sure, but the intention is there. What when code will implement that vision/business-plan?
cf. https://mamot.fr/@jz/114076182958266263
Will we have the collective resources to detect and counter it? Is that the only bet we are placing now?
@[email protected] LibreWolf is great (rather *seems* great as i haven't read its source code myself..) may be OK for now. But do we have the collective resources (incl. funding) to audit all of ffox' code and updates? Will we be able to detect and counter the upcoming waves of #enshitification, based on the new master plan of grabbing "licenses to use" everyone's data? How long before this becomes sisyphian? A viable strategy in the long-run? What alternatives? Time for these difficult questions.. 🔥😡🦊
@jz @debian @[email protected] Just to be clear: I'm not saying that the new terms are not a threat, just that in principle, the community (Debian+) can prepare for and respond to the threat.
There's a big thread at [3].
Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon. > 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. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/ **Update:** See below in the thread for their clarification.
Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🫖5946
Boud