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

submitted 21 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] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That's a nice disclaimer. They should clarify that in their privacy policy directly instead of just saying "oh that's not what we meant guys, pinky promise 😉"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

They mean there stupid services such as sync and ai, but the idiots who wrote this should have clarified that this doesn't encompass the browser. They do require your data to provide those afterall.

The way it is worded is just bad they shoudl have specified services that need data like ai in the wording:

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, something like:

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to provide the following services:

Then list the specific services.

If I don't use any of the services, they have no right to use any of my data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Seriously Firefox include many services, specifying the TOS for the entire browser is stupid.

What is worse is that people are asking for clarification and there is no response from Mozilla:

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, they should have a general one that lays out their intentions, and then addendums for each service. It's hard to tell which are intended to apply strictly to Firefox and which are intended to apply to other things, like AI, Pocket, Sync, etc.

Keep the base one small and tight, and then have specific exceptions for services that require them.