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Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox | Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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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 iconic open source web browser.

This official Terms of Use will, Mozilla argues, offer users ‘more transparency’ over their ‘rights and permissions’ as they use Firefox to browse the information superhighway — as well well as Mozilla’s “rights” to help them do it, as this excerpt makes clear:

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet.

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 about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice (aka privacy policy). This adds a crop of cushy caveats to cover the company’s planned AI chatbot integrations, cloud-based service features, and more ads and sponsored content on Firefox New Tab page.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 26 points 14 hours ago (13 children)

So now what the hell do we have to use to not be spied upon?

[–] DominicJ@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Soon other web engine will coming, first LadyBird browser and two is Servo Browser. But they're still along way to go

[–] adub@programming.dev 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Am I missing something on Servo Browser? Because when I went to check it out and seems more like next-gen browser engine that looks to be an improvement on Firefox's Gecko. If so then we will need to wait for a browser team to adopt it.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Servo is also building a web browser UI.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

But isn't Servo funded by Mozilla

[–] EngineerGaming 5 points 9 hours ago

Used to be.

After Mozilla laid off all Servo developers in 2020, governance of the project was transferred to Linux Foundation Europe. Development work officially continues at the same GitHub repository with the project itself entirely volunteer driven.

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