Comment by koakuma-chan
1 year ago
> 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.
So basically they can track everything I upload or type on my keyboard while in Firefox?
Yes they can and will, they are a add company now, the money from google will stop flowing so they do everything to make money with your data.
No, they cannot.
You're replying to a comment where I've broken the sentence down into smaller parts. It's the best I can do.
How is "to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content" different from "to do anything we want with it"?
My guess is the first phrase is lawyer-brain for "we send the words you typed in the search bar to the search engine for you."
(Yes, they need your express permission to do that, because copyright law is really fucking dumb and makes absolutely no sense if you're approaching it from engineer-brain.)
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> navigate, experience, and interact with online content
I can do all of those things just fine without Mozilla also experiencing my online content.
My browser sent a request that starts with “POST” in order to tell this website to create this comment but it includes the words that I wrote and therefore “own” as far as copyright is concerned. Mozilla requests a license to send such data to websites in similar contexts as, in this case, I “indicate” by clicking the “reply” button.
Other uses of that data are not licensed. For example, using that data in an unrelated request they send to themselves, not indicated by clicking reply, is not licensed.
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The last part of the sentence narrows it down, as does the first part.
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