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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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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

can a chromium fork reasonably be maintained with adblock support?

[–] TK420@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That would be getting right back in bed with Google, gross.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

i also hate it, but i see no one else putting the amount of work necessary to maintain an entire browser engine. and mozilla clearly wants to enshittify.

firefox has its days numbered. even if its not overnight and we have some time, we have to come up with something.

anyone up to date on how servo is doing rn, btw?

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This new policy doesn't apply to Firefox forks so you're better off with one of those

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

so in a similar vein: can the community reasonably maintain an up-to-date and secure gecko-based browser we can universally move to instead of firefox? can we make google back the fuck off while we do so? because thats what seems to be the way, with how things are going down.

[–] coolmojo@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You mean like Pale Moon

[–] wordcraeft@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I forgot that Pale Moon existed. How's development going on that these days? I see that it got an update a week ago.

[–] coolmojo@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Still going strong. If the community reports issues or incompatibility then it gets fixed quickly.

[–] YungOnions@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Thorium certainly does https://thorium.rocks/

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I stopped following Thorium when some questionable pics were discovered in its repo

[–] potpotato@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Thoughts on Vivaldi?

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 4 points 8 hours ago

I mostly use Librewolf on Linux, and Fennec on Android. When I specifically need a Chromium-based browser, I usually open a Chromium guest from nix-shell on Linux, or Kiwi on Android.

[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

Brave supports extensions still but it has its own issues.

It's getting hard to boycott companies and products when it starting to look like most are dipping their toes into stuff their users don't like.