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

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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] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Linux Mint uses GPL2 LibreOffice uses MPL 2

Those are licenses for you to use the software. They aren't licenses for the software maintainer to use your information.

There's an important fact you may not know: Politicians often have no understanding of things they are regulating. Why is this important? A future privacy law could easily be written such that a browser doing browser things (like submitting a comment on an unrelated website) could be construed as the maintainer using user data. They are getting ahead of that possibility by requiring that you give them permission to do the things you want them to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 14 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.