Mozilla's new Terms of Use causes confusion among Firefox users

Re:Mozilla's new Terms of Use causes confusion among Firefox... by WarOnPrivacy on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:43AM (#43202473)

Specifically, it's boilerplate to prevent Firefox for being dinged for bog-standard browser behavior, presumably in jurisdictions where that might be a possibility.

Here's the clarification from Mozilla:

        We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice.

    The new policy merely allows Firefox to function as it always did, to help users visit web pages, allow the browser permission to store your personal information such as form data, or to access a file that you wanted to upload to a website.

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Re:Mozilla's new Terms of Use causes confusion among Firefox... by aedC0fGXvjdxa on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:50AM (#43202515)

I guess this is to avoid legal issues with the embedded translators and/or the Orbit AI Assistant.

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Re:Mozilla's new Terms of Use causes confusion among Firefox... by jniles on Friday February 28, 2025 @08:31AM (#43205360)

If that is the case, I wish they would just say that. Currently, it is written as a Rorschach test where each person sees the good or evil they want to in the changes.

Just say why and be done with it.

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Re:Mozilla's new Terms of Use causes confusion among Firefox... by aedC0fGXvjdxa on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:05AM (#43227555)

I agree, they should make it clear.

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