Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
by altairprime on Thursday February 27, 2025 @09:56PM
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Bookmarks and tab URLs don’t contain porn, generally? References are not typically considered explicit, though certainly their language isn’t clear enough about that.
If you bookmark a collection of data: / blob: links then that would be the outlier scenario where you shouldn’t use any third-party server-involved bookmark syncing service, as presumably they’ll all either break or ban you once they find you using their bookmark table space for data storage.
Good point about Relay.
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
by caturopath on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:34PM
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It seems like they might be "use[d]...to...[u]pload, download, transmit, display, or grant access to content that includes graphic depictions of sexuality"
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
by wongarsu on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:32PM
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Bookmarks and tabs hinge on how you interpret "grant access". Do URLs to publicly available websites grant you access, or does the phrase only apply to cookies, passwords, login-urls, etc.? I'm pretty certain it would apply to login-urls, email-confirmation emails, password-reset emails, etc, but for normal URLs I could see it either way
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
by Swizec on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:49PM
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> Bookmarks and tab URLs don’t contain porn, generally?
Do URL stubs of porn titles count as explicitly sexual? They can get pretty raunchy
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
by 0cf8612b2e1e on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:54AM
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Back in the Wild West of geocities days, I seem to recall animated pornographic favicons.
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
by altairprime on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:51PM
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Favicons are not contained within bookmarks under normal circumstances, but I don’t know if Sync syncs those or if the browser fetches them on each endpoint.
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
by altairprime on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:07PM
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I think this is the most damning point: their terms extend to cover the text in URLs, and so by definition all text including titles and URLs — as well as any pages visited, due to tab syncing — would need to be in compliance with policy. If it’s as clearcut as presented here, anyways. Do the other browser profile syncing services have similar language? Is such overreach unique to Mozilla Corporation?
Though, considering how few people are likely to care about the legal exposure risk of continuing to use Firefox Sync, I don’t imagine this will end up being particularly enforceable in practice.
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
by neuroticnews25 on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:15AM
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Blob URL is also just a reference to a (local) resource.
I guess another valid example would be something like javascript:document.write(<data>)
Do you know any other?
Fine by me since I don't use a Mozilla account, but sounds to me like I shouldn't get a Mozilla account either