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Firefox terms up service (it got way worse) (www.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 week ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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 Firefox now has a Acceptable use policy https://www.mozilla.org/about/legal/acceptable-use/

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[–] baldprophet@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This just means they can use the information you input in order for Firefox to work the way you expect it to. The purpose of the information collection is clearly stated:

to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

[–] ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If Mozilla wants to limit their use of my input, why the do I need to give them a full, non-exclusive license?

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So that they can process all your input.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

"Something something AI"

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Firefox works just fine without the ToS change. They are up to something.

[–] Ankkuli@lemdro.id 2 points 1 week ago

Wouldn’t just ”exclusive” be the word that your argument would be better with?

[–] Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

But what does that actually mean? It just sounds as vague and non descriptive as possible, which is the worrisome part legally