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???

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    21 hours ago

    Doing some digging, this is what has been added to the privacy notice:

    You have the option to use a third-party AI chatbot of your choice to help you with things like summarizing what you’re reading, writing and brainstorming ideas, subject to that provider’s terms of use and privacy notice.

    If you choose to enable a chatbot in the sidebar and/or through a shortcut, Mozilla does not have access to your conversations or the underlying content you input into the selected chatbot. We do collect technical and interaction data on how this feature is used to help improve Firefox, such as how often each third-party chatbot provider is chosen, how often suggested prompts are used, and the length of selected text.

    In other words, there will be opt-in LLM functionality that can be tied to third party providers. When you submit information to them… they have that data… the data falls under their privacy policies, not Mozilla’s.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        13·
        20 hours ago

        that’s effectively be a more low-level reskin of whatever browser engine your system bundles, which would be chromium’s on non-apple systems

        The DuckDuckGo browser and search engine have been free to use since day one. We make money from privacy-respecting ads, not by exploiting your data. When you search for “car” we show you a car ad — it’s that simple.

        i fw that tbh