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Overview:

  • Mozilla is updating its new Terms of Use for Firefox due to criticism over unclear language about user data.
  • Original terms seemed to give Mozilla broad ownership of user data, causing concern.
  • Updated terms emphasize limited scope of data interaction, stating Mozilla only needs rights necessary to operate Firefox.
  • Mozilla acknowledges confusion and aims to clarify their intent to make Firefox work without owning user content.
  • Company explains they don’t make blanket claims of “never selling data” due to evolving legal definitions and obligations.
  • Mozilla collects and shares some data with partners to keep Firefox commercially viable, but ensures data is anonymized or shared in aggregate.
  • Lit@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Is there a way to generate fake user activity data to feed to Firefox or stripped down versions of firefox ?
    So that the data is useless for anyone buying it. Furthermore fake browsing data also messes up data collection by websites.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      8 days ago

      You’re probably just better going with a fork of FF that has all that nonsense stripped out.