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Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon.
You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. 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.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
Update: See below in the thread for their clarification.
OK e-mailed legal-notices@mozilla.com
(Note it is a lot more than this one clause where they expand their claimed right to spy on you, and i encourage your e-mails to reflect this where i did not. See Sarah Jamie Lewis' thread, https://social.coop/@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social/114072293511541296 )
Anyway what i wrote, before i read that:
Firefox does not have any right to information i enter into the URL address bar or forms on websites
My feedback and suggestion here, absolutely you can use for free.
Which is that this clause is wildly unacceptable, and you need to make very clear that you do not and will not ever spy on people while they browse:
"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."
Sounds like a ridiculously overbroad claim so that you can stick "AI" down our throats and advertisements, but with this start you will hand over our private data to a fascist government, too.
And again, that sentence is making a claim to data that was never intended to be shared with Mozilla, that is and must remain solely the private personal communication between the person using Firefox and the website being visited.
Firefox does not have any right to information i enter into the URL address bar or forms on websites, and nothing you put in your terms of use can change my counterclaim to this basic human right of privacy.
Sincerely,
20-year Firefox and Thunderbird user, promoter, and supporter,
benjamin melançon
