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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Of course the implementation itself matters more than the promise to implement it, but the one is specifically intended to lead to the other. We shouldn't be saying, ho-hum, they're only threatening to f*** with our privacy in the future, when in fact this is the step before they actually do that.