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???

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    So wtf happened at Mozilla for this 180 degree course change? This literally goed against everything it was supposed to stand for

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    9 months ago

    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.

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    9 months 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?