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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 28 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Librewolf is still a good alternative

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

In the good/bad old days a web page was just text and images but now a browser is a platform for running software. Each website can do useful computing for the user but the software author is in control and always tempted to make it run for them at the expenve of the user.

Crazy idea, maybe we shouldn't use web browsers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Well I suppose LibreWolf (or some other de-branded Firefox) will become more mainstream. Similar to what chromium is to chrome 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

If we are comparing it to Chrome, it is more like Ungoogled-Chromium.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That's not a real equivalence.

Chromium is the basis for Google Chrome, while Librewolf is nothing more than a leech to Firefox. It's just Firefox, rebranded.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Rebranded, pre-cleaned of all the forced stuff from mozilla, with the built-in integration of more privacy-enhancing features.

So, not "just firefox, rebranded" at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

They aren't developing or maintaining the core browser though, they depend on Firefox still being looked after.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Servo is also building a web browser UI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

But isn't Servo funded by Mozilla

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I am still waiting desperately for a servo based browser, mozilla kicking it out was one of the reasons I lost all hope in Mozilla a while back.