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/
Get ready for ads as well
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#commitcomment-153095625
They removed this:
{ "@type": "Question", "name": "Does Firefox sell your personal data?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. " } },What’s the best fork that’s available in
apt?I wonder if the “never will” part is legally binding. Most companies bend over backwards to avoid making future-looking guarantees like that.
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.
Firefox already has ads. (Though you can turn them off.) As does its default search engine.
Yup. I just got one for some new Firefox feature. And Pocket has been a thing for a while, which is basically an ad engine.
I still use Firefox because I can easily disable that nonsense. I’m mostly here for engine diversity, so once a reasonable competitor exists (LadyBird? Servo?), I’ll bail.
Wow, some promise!