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Terms of use and privacy changes for Firefox
Friday February 28, 2025. 04:50 PM , from LWN.net
There is a fair amount of unhappiness on the Internet about the announcement
from Mozilla about a new 'terms of use' agreement and an updated privacy notice for the Firefox browser. Firefox will always continue to add new features, improve existing ones, and test new ideas. We remain dedicated to making Firefox open source, but we believe that doing so along with an official Terms of Use will give you more transparency over your rights and permissions as you use Firefox. And actually asking you to acknowledge it is an important step, so we're making it a part of the standard product experience starting in early March for new users and later this year for existing ones. Specifically, the apparent removal of a promise to not sell users' personal data has drawn attention. (See also: this analysis by Michael Taggart. 'So, is this Mozilla 'going evil?' Nah, prolly not. But it is at best clumsy, and a poor showing if they want me to believe they care about Firefox, rather than the data it can provide'.)
https://lwn.net/Articles/1012430/
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