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

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.

  • HeartyOfGlass@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    6 hours ago

    We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible

    Gee whizz, like what? What “basic” functionality is missing that can only be solved with a ToS saying they’re going to track how I use their browser?

    Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox

    That’s what I needed to see. So it’s not missing basic functionality, they just want to make it legal to track your browser usage.