The terms were just introduced on Wednesday.

AI Summary:

Overview:

  • Mozilla is updating its new Terms of Use for Firefox due to criticism over unclear language about user data.
  • Original terms seemed to give Mozilla broad ownership of user data, causing concern.
  • Updated terms emphasize limited scope of data interaction, stating Mozilla only needs rights necessary to operate Firefox.
  • Mozilla acknowledges confusion and aims to clarify their intent to make Firefox work without owning user content.
  • Company explains they don’t make blanket claims of “never selling data” due to evolving legal definitions and obligations.
  • Mozilla collects and shares some data with partners to keep Firefox commercially viable, but ensures data is anonymized or shared in aggregate.
  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    12 hours ago

    The issue is that Mozilla is actively hiding these settings.

    They are under “Privacy”, just as I expected where they would.

    There’s one (I forgot which one) that you can’t find by searching for the title in the FF settings, you have to scroll to it yourself.

    🤷

    • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      11 hours ago

      Yes, you can disable the settings that are exposed to you with a checkbox. How about all the other that have no checkboxes and you can find by snooping around in either the code or about:config ?

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 hours ago

        How about all the other that have no checkboxes and you can find by snooping around in either the code or about:config ?

        Which are? Genuine question. I’m not aware of those either.

        • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          3 hours ago

          I’m not going to enumerate them, mostly because I did not keep track of which one was on and which one was off before messing all of them up. If you’re curious, open “about:config” and search for “survey*.enabled”, “collect*.enabled”. Even with all settings disabled, some of them remains on, and they do cause traffic to the (documented) endpoints.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      12 hours ago

      Dude, I’m not talking about the specific settings you’ve shown. There’s more settings you should set regarding privacy, and (at least a couple of months ago) one of them wasn’t appearing when searching for it.