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Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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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.

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[โ€“] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like everyone would have the knee jerk reaction. It's how you think about it and actually respond that's important.

But that initial stomach drop feeling is pretty natural. On its own without context, that's scary af

[โ€“] yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah, absolutely, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have that reaction. And especially related to Mozilla, for two reasons, how important I think it is in the future of the internet and how much at risk it is from any entity that would like to have control over that and break the progress of Mozilla.