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Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 17 hours ago by farcaster to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] DarkSpectrum 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"help you .... experience ..... content" = Ads

[–] HereIAm 3 points 4 hours ago

That's the more vicious part of it. How do we know what this experience they want to serve us is. A more pessimistic read could be they sell everything we type to ad companies and claim targeted ads are totally enhancing our experience.