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.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    I agree that politicians are idiots but we’re not talking about politicians.

    And even if we were, the case law around privacy pales in comparison to copyright law.

    There is no reason why a browser that sits on devices under my control requires me to give an unrestricted license to the software maintainer.

    If Mozilla wishes to bundle their AI slop and issue a separate license for that where I can disagree to my use of it, that would be one thing. But the TOS, as currently written, allows for any use of my data.

    • eRac@lemmings.world
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      2 hours ago

      It doesn’t allow for any use of your data. It allows for use of your data to do the things you ask it to do. That permission is implied by you asking it to do something, but it isn’t explicitly stated.

      The AI clause is conditional. It only applies if you use the AI features.