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Firefox terms up service (it got way worse) (www.mozilla.org)

submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 Firefox now has a Acceptable use policy https://www.mozilla.org/about/legal/acceptable-use/

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

I'm trying to parse this. If you take the basic bits, they're saying they can do anything with the info you give them.

When you upload or input information through Firefox (anything you do), , you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information.

The rest is just justification for the first part. They basically can use it in anyway they see fit.

Do these rights apply to forks?

Edit: These are the 2 I'm concerned about in the Acceptable Use policy:

Violate the copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property rights of others,

Violate any person’s rights of privacy or publicity,

That means corporations can go after you for either.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Companies can go ahead you even without those two points.

But now Firefox has a leg to stand on when new standards would be forced upon them to prevent piracy and kiddie porn.

The age old argument of "Your browser is being used to bankrupt the movie studios and abuse children. What are you going to do about it?"