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???

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    203·
    1 day ago

    You might not be using functions that require data to work. Are you using the AI options? Image to text? Translation? Saving passwords? Using search suggestions? Then you don’t need to send any data.

    Like it or not, most browsers do most of those things now. FireFox is no exception.

    This seems like a lot of smoke and no fire to me.

    • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
      121·
      1 day ago

      Even writing a post, you’re entering data through Firefox into the post box. We just don’t consider that data. It would be pretty quiet around here if you couldn’t do that…

      • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Are you even remotely aware how browsers work? Mozilla doesn’t need to collect the information typed into your post box in order to serve the website.

        • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Maximum wrongness on your part.

          This is the original text that everyone flipped out about (OP: “WHY DO YOU NEED MY DATA TO MAKE FIREFOX WORK???”):

          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.

          It has since been changed to:

          You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

          Use. When you input a url, that information is used to resolve an IP then fetch a webpage. You’re granting a right to complete tasks you assign using information you input. They have permission to send your post content to a server, but they don’t own that content. This should be very obvious in the revised text.

          • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            36 minutes ago

            Just quoting the recent changes in their ToS doesn’t prove your previous claim that was completely unrelated to this.

            Mozilla doesn’t need to collect your data in order to server pages in Firefox. Firefox operates on the client. Data collection is not necessary in order to server the decentralized web. It has never been. Like when I curl a webpage through the Linux terminal I automatically sell my soul to Linus Torvalds?