Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox | The Mozilla Blog
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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???

    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
      152·
      7 days ago

      so why weren’t they in there before? moz’s lawyers have obviously never thought they even need a policy before now, so what changed?

        • pogmommy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          51·
          7 days ago

          Why the hell does my HTML renderer need a baked-in frontend for a privacy nightmare that requires I sign over rights for every keystroke even if I don’t use it? If Mozilla really wants to roll it out themselves, make it an extension available for download and tie your abysmal terms of use to that, don’t upend your entire reputation for the latest big tech trend.

          And the sentiment against AI on lemmy absolutely sucks dick. I’m tempted to go back to Reddit because this place is luddite.ml at this point. People who’ve never spun up a local model on their GPU talk like they have trifecta PhD creds in comp sci

          Oh poor you, how dare people appropriately respond to foil-plated shit being advertised to us as platinum decor. Stay away from glue on days you use your computer

        • kipo@lemm.eeEnglish
          51·
          7 days ago

          Do you think sucking dick is a bad thing?

        • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
          21·
          7 days ago

          Most people want features like AI

          That’s just not true.

          as someone who runs local inference all the time, i think that centralized online models have no place anywhere near consumers. partly because the things they offer are trivial and offload critical skills, partly because they require insane amounts of energy, and partly because they are privacy nightmares. all things that are against moz’s stated mission. and yet here we are.

            • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              moz are behind llamafiles, but ollama is a separate entity.

              also, chat models are just not that useful. i’m all for their local translation models and the like, but chat is just a toy.