Comment by nh2
1 year ago
> You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox
Wait, now Mozilla operates Firefox for me and I can just lean back while they do the browsing?
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license
Really the whole document looks like it was copy-pasted from some SaaS template.
Does Mozilla not have a lawyer that reviewed this who knows what a browser is?
Sounds like a license to train on your data.
This is exactly it. They're covering their bases as they roll out AI garbage no one asked for.
> Wait, now Mozilla operates Firefox for me and I can just lean back while they do the browsing?
Yea, this is the root "shitty attitude:" This idea that programs 1. running on my computer, 2. loaded from my hard drive, 3. into my RAM, 4. outputting to my monitor, are, in reality "Operated by [COMPANY]." Fuck that. Just because you wrote the software, doesn't mean you're "operating" it. I don't want an ongoing relationship with my products' vendors. Their role is to make it and distribute it to me, from that point on, butt out!