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New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Zenlix@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Apparently mozilla wants the right to get data from firefox users. But not like general information, they want to know what data you upload or download through firefox.

Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example.

What the fuck? I use firefox because I want privacy!!! Not sharing my information with a company.

We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. WHY DO YOU NEED MY DATA TO MAKE FIREFOX WORK???

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You might not be using functions that require data to work. Are you using the AI options? Image to text? Translation? Saving passwords? Using search suggestions? Then you don't need to send any data.

Like it or not, most browsers do most of those things now. FireFox is no exception.

This seems like a lot of smoke and no fire to me.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well shoot if Firefox goes I guess we’re back to carrier pigeons and smoke signals.

[–] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How about Orion?

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or just make NetSurf good enough?

[–] MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

NetSurf updates are very slow

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

NetSurf needs more developers, which is one of the reasons for the development pace, and I'm happy for every occasion to help them get more, so here's today's one.

(Mature software needs fewer updates than fresh software too, but that's probably not the most critical aspect here.)