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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] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if the "never will" part is legally binding. Most companies bend over backwards to avoid making future-looking guarantees like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Nah. Such permanent guarantees are not legally enforceable, if a company really cares about it they'll structure themselves in such a way as to make it very hard to change by having veto voices in their ownership structure who are for such things and will not allow a change, by writing language that requires some high majority of agreement of these owners that's hard to come by to change such conditions.

At best you get it in a contract when you use the software but guess what, that contract can and is overwritten as soon as you use a new version of the software with a new contract, feel free to use the old one full of one-click machine compromise vulnerabilities forever if you'd like but in reality you have no choice but to update and accept the new contract.