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Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 4 months ago by farcaster@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

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[+] tritonium@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure, Jan. I guess you're not using a web browser to post this? Not using an app, because that would mean having an Android or Apple phone?

I think you underestimate just how shitty everything now is, even if you're putting a massive effort in by using almost exclusively FOSS and maintaining a stack of ad blockers.

[+] tritonium@midwest.social -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So, you use a browser that's vulnerable to enshittification, because there's no way to avoid this. There are only 3 companies working on browser engines, only 2 work on non-mac platforms, and both depend on advertising. Sorry you didn't realize that.

[+] tritonium@midwest.social 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Firefox and Chromium are open source, but virtually everybody working on them is employed by Google or Mozilla.

If you look at the changelogs and dev blogs of all the various forked versions of those projects, what you'll see is that the devs spend basically all their time trying to keep up with all the changes coming out of Google/Mozilla and then trying to find out how to re-integrate the tweaks they've developed that makes their version different -- which is normally just applying a skin, or a plugin, or removing something they consider a misfeature.

Let me know if you would like me to continue schooling you.

Oh, I wasn't aware you'd started. You must be a terrible teacher.