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Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox | Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a ‘Terms of Use’ policy — a first for the iconic open source web browser.

This official Terms of Use will, Mozilla argues, offer users ‘more transparency’ over their ‘rights and permissions’ as they use Firefox to browse the information superhighway — as well well as Mozilla’s “rights” to help them do it, as this excerpt makes clear:

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.

Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice (aka privacy policy). This adds a crop of cushy caveats to cover the company’s planned AI chatbot integrations, cloud-based service features, and more ads and sponsored content on Firefox New Tab page.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

This comment under the article gave me a chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

sometimes bound to give, if firefox isnt taking in money from having no ads, to having ads. they are going to need tons of ads, and the ability to sell your browser info for money, much like chrome is doing. surprised its taken this long to finally say "private donations isnt enough"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Yeesh. So what's an alternative?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is Waterfox a good alternative?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Waterfox's creator, while not being HOSTILE to privacy, has said in the past that making the most private browser in the world is not the goal of the project. The goal is a more customizable browser for power users

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Man all this makes me want to just use Links2 for everything and being a luddite. Complete with cabin in the woods. So frustrating.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (15 children)

can a chromium fork reasonably be maintained with adblock support?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Where's the gofundme for the firefox fork project?

Was this from google turning off the funding tap?

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