Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox
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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

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.

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      In the good/bad old days a web page was just text and images but now a browser is a platform for running software. Each website can do useful computing for the user but the software author is in control and always tempted to make it run for them at the expenve of the user.

      Crazy idea, maybe we shouldn’t use web browsers.

    • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      Well I suppose LibreWolf (or some other de-branded Firefox) will become more mainstream. Similar to what chromium is to chrome 🤷

      • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        That’s not a real equivalence.

        Chromium is the basis for Google Chrome, while Librewolf is nothing more than a leech to Firefox. It’s just Firefox, rebranded.

        • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 hours ago

          Rebranded, pre-cleaned of all the forced stuff from mozilla, with the built-in integration of more privacy-enhancing features.

          So, not “just firefox, rebranded” at all.

          • scholar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 hours ago

            They aren’t developing or maintaining the core browser though, they depend on Firefox still being looked after.

    • DominicJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      Soon other web engine will coming, first LadyBird browser and two is Servo Browser. But they’re still along way to go

      • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        I am still waiting desperately for a servo based browser, mozilla kicking it out was one of the reasons I lost all hope in Mozilla a while back.

      • adub@programming.devEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        Am I missing something on Servo Browser? Because when I went to check it out and seems more like next-gen browser engine that looks to be an improvement on Firefox’s Gecko. If so then we will need to wait for a browser team to adopt it.