From the new terms:

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.

  • HereIAm@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I read it as “you type a URL in the address bar, we’ll take you there. You want to search for something using the search bar? We got you, we’ll forward your search to the search engine of your choice. All free of charge.”

    It’s just worded in such generic legal wording it makes you gag. But them pointing it out so explicitly just makes me more suspicious lol. I think it’s fine for now, just another wall of text to keep an eye on for any future modifications.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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      9 hours ago

      A more factual and literal reading:

      You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox,

      “If we deem anything as “necessary to operate Firefox”, such as selling your data, then you automatically grants us all rights to do that”.

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        13 hours ago

        That’s the more vicious part of it. How do we know what this experience they want to serve us is. A more pessimistic read could be they sell everything we type to ad companies and claim targeted ads are totally enhancing our experience.