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 They added an update to the news page:
"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 the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice."
I read the whole privacy policy, and I don't see anything different than was there before. A couple of things I don't quite like that are opt-out, and the rest is opt-in.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a non corporate fork of Firefox that is well maintained, but I think this specific change is not inherently harmful, just a very bad attempt at rewriting the legal notice. If they actually introduce something in the source code that sends our data and is not explained in the privacy policy, we will know.
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