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.
A response to apologists in your sphere:
If Mozilla wants to limit their use of my input, why the do I need to give them a full, non-exclusive license?
So the enshitification finally makes it way to firefox… it’s a sad time
deleted by creator
No! Now double AI! -every single fucking company
deleted by creator
Oh, unfortunately, we don’t have the development resources available for low priority code additions at this time.
Just installed LibreWolf and got my favourite addons working. Take the leap and leave this sinking ship.
My one, sole issue with LibreWolf is—and correct me if I’m wrong—it still relies heavily upon Mozilla’s efforts in developing Firefox. LibreWolf is not a standalone fork, just a downstream improvement.
It really sucks, because apparently, developing a web browser is hard. Until we can manage to get a browser that’s completely free from Chromium and Firefox, we’re kinda stuck with the Mozilla hand that feeds us as the current best option.
I’m just looking for a temporary solution until Ladybird gets up and running. That’s our best long term solution I think.
As much as I agree with you, fact is, if the ship sinks, so will Librewolf🙁
LibreWolf is the lifeboat until the ship Ladybird comes to pick us up.
Any suggestions for mobile use on Android?
Seconded, I have a few that I switch between depending on what I feel like at the time.
IceRaven Privacy Browser Tor IronFox
Only one isn’t updated with ffupdater.
Fennec
How about, you give me AI ‘enhancement’ and more ads and I’ll give you my solemn word to never use your browser again? Deal?
And this isn’t related to/necessary to work with that Googles Manifesto v3?
Will this affect forks such as LibreWolf and Fennec?
According to the article no, because it doesn’t apply to the source code apparently
Distros building from source for their own repos may also be exempt then?
Is there something like GitHub Actions that builds straight from the code?
Disgusting
