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New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Zenlix@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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???

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[–] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] tux0r@feddit.org -1 points 1 week ago

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?

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