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???
At a time when they could actually be pushing the Manifest issue and try to finally get a foothold, instead it feels like they have scattered rakes around the yard in the middle of the night and decided to go for a jog.
it’s not like anyone who cares hasn’t pulled up stakes tbh
Thanks to that overpaid ceo.
Besides the privacy issue, the TOU is ridiculous. They supply a tool (the browser) and you use it. It’s not a collaboration between you and them. You can use it whatever way you want.
Get ready for ads as well
They removed this:
{ "@type": "Question", "name": "Does Firefox sell your personal data?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. " } },I hate that they had “never will” in there. Seems like a broken promise.
They broke a promise and they broke my heart 💔💔💔
i still like mozilla (and I donate to them monthly because i believe in the mission of an open internet) and, unlike most people, i don’t think this is a very big deal.
however, i don’t want to put all my eggs in one basket so… are there any other ethical pro open internet evangelist groups i should start to follow or contribute to? preferably an ethical foundation that isn’t cryptofash or bigoted. i know there’s the eff but they’re not really focused on an open and free internet, they’re more privacy (nothing against them; i love them).
bonus if they’re not hq’d in the us.
You might not be using functions that require data to work. Are you using the AI options? Image to text? Translation? Saving passwords? Using search suggestions? Then you don’t need to send any data.
Like it or not, most browsers do most of those things now. FireFox is no exception.
This seems like a lot of smoke and no fire to me.
Even writing a post, you’re entering data through Firefox into the post box. We just don’t consider that data. It would be pretty quiet around here if you couldn’t do that…
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How about Orion?
Or just make NetSurf good enough?
NetSurf updates are very slow
NetSurf needs more developers, which is one of the reasons for the development pace, and I’m happy for every occasion to help them get more, so here’s today’s one.
(Mature software needs fewer updates than fresh software too, but that’s probably not the most critical aspect here.)
I have really high hopes that Ladybird picks up the slack
Or make NetSurf good enough? It’s mature (and lacking developers), Ladybird is not.
WHY DO YOU NEED MY DATA TO MAKE FIREFOX WORK???
They don’t care about your actual data, they care about how Firefox is used. That’s an incredible important piece of information every developer needs to know.
How else do you get to know, what’s working right and what doesn’t? How do you plan development for the next years if you don’t know what to develop?This is about throwing millions of $ at the right thing. If you miss you are fucked.
If data can be abused it will be abused.
You use your own software and read bug reports.
That only gives you a biased and incomplete insight.
Used FF forever, even though the birth and rise of Chrome.
We’re done. The company I IT for therefore is also done. As are friends and family I sort computers for.
The shit now stinks and must be taken out.
Reading through their privacy policy, it seems pretty normal stuff to me… Even ensuring that more data stays local than other browsers.
This sounds like bad communication more than bad software.
This isn’t really even bad communication. This is idiots with a platform screaming FUD for attention.
Used FF forever
So you probably should remember the Mozilla FAQ entry that it’s “Firefox”, not “FireFox”; and that’s why they prefer “fx” because “FF” makes no sense. ;-p
Time to switch to the Mullvad browser!
Please pardon my ignorance on the matter, how does Mullvad compare to Brave?
The Mullvad browser is based on the gecko engine while Brave is based on chromium.
I dont trust Brave much because the ceo Brendan Eich is into right-wing politics and bitcoin.
An alternative browser (not based on the Chromium) should be driven by the community (vide Proton).
Alternatively…
Oh no, does this mean that Mozilla doesn’t give a damn about the privacy of their last twelve users? I.e. those who did not see that coming a decade ago?
There is the part where you interact with Forefox. Without your data, it just won’t work. They need your timezone, your screen size,… I mean, that’s for every browser around, even the most hardened system. This data can be used for fingerprinting so you should be aware and you should agree upon that usage or quit the internet.
i.e. using a browser is sending data towards that browser.
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so why weren’t they in there before? moz’s lawyers have obviously never thought they even need a policy before now, so what changed?
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Why the hell does my HTML renderer need a baked-in frontend for a privacy nightmare that requires I sign over rights for every keystroke even if I don’t use it? If Mozilla really wants to roll it out themselves, make it an extension available for download and tie your abysmal terms of use to that, don’t upend your entire reputation for the latest big tech trend.
And the sentiment against AI on lemmy absolutely sucks dick. I’m tempted to go back to Reddit because this place is luddite.ml at this point. People who’ve never spun up a local model on their GPU talk like they have trifecta PhD creds in comp sci
Oh poor you, how dare people appropriately respond to foil-plated shit being advertised to us as platinum decor. Stay away from glue on days you use your computer
Do you think sucking dick is a bad thing?
Most people want features like AI
as someone who runs local inference all the time, i think that centralized online models have no place anywhere near consumers. partly because the things they offer are trivial and offload critical skills, partly because they require insane amounts of energy, and partly because they are privacy nightmares. all things that are against moz’s stated mission. and yet here we are.
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moz are behind llamafiles, but ollama is a separate entity.
also, chat models are just not that useful. i’m all for their local translation models and the like, but chat is just a toy.
