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Mozilla Updates Firefox Terms Again After Backlash Over Broad Data License Language, by @thehackernews:

thehackernews.com/2025/03/mozi…

#firefox #mozilla #browsers #licensing


Mozillalta varoitus: Päivitä vanhentunut Firefox heti

Mikäli käytössä on Firefox 127 tai sitä vanhempi, on selaimen juurivarmenne vanhentunut. Tästä seuraa tietoturvaongelmia ja mm. lisäosat eivät ole enää luotettavia.

Kehotus koskee Windowsia, Linuxia, macOS:aa ja Androidia.

dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/03/15/moz…

#firefox #mozilla #selaimet #tietoturva #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka



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#firefox #mozillafirefox #mozilla


oh for the love of pete

[e] @dveditz, security lead at mozilla and co-chair of the w3c web application security group, says this was an accident that has already been reverted, location is not actually shared with advertisers.

jeez mozilla's just havin a week huh

#firefox #mozilla


Now that's a pull request worth following if I ever saw one
github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pul…

> Restore "Does Firefox sell your personal data?" entry within structured-data-firefox-faq.html

#Mozilla #Privacy


After #community #protest: #Firefox #update on their "Terms of Use"


Source: blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…

Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make Firefox work, but in doing so we also created some #confusion and #concern. With that in mind, we’re updating the language to more clearly reflect the limited scope of how #Mozilla interacts with #user #data.


#news #Software #privacy #security #internet #Browser #Problem #www #web #freedom


Okay but...

Did they just change the meaning of the word "sell/selling" at #Mozilla or what?

Why would you remove this, even if "some jurisdictions define “sell” more broadly than most people would usually understand that word"

It feels like vaguely saying "no, no, but yes"

blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…

#FireFox


Mozilla has posted an update, removing the reference to the Acceptable Use Policy (Mozilla won’t dictate which websites you visit) but doubling down on sharing anonymized data. blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…

I guess this is the end of Firefox.

#Firefox #Mozilla


I read it, but I dont understand it.

So they still sell my data to ad companies and show me ads (e.g. in new tabs), which they didn't do before, right? Can I opt out, or do I need to ditch anything Firefox related?

Anyone knows if firefox based browsers such as Zen Browser are also affected by this?

#Firefox #mozilla #ZenBrowser


“Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about ‘selling data’)”

– Mozilla

;) ;)

(At least Mark Zuckerberg had the good grace to call us “dumb fucks” to our faces.)

blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…

#Mozilla #surveillance #capitalism #SiliconValley #BigTech


“that would involve involve cutting back its work on a #Mastodon instance” — #NabhiaSyed, #MozillaCorporate, #Mozilla

And replacing future technical work to improve #Mastodon with this dog pile of AT Protocol concept. 👇👇👇

“Free Our Feeds solicits funds to foster AT Protocol that powers decentralized social media”

#FreeOurFeeds / #BlueSky / #Meta / #ATProtocol #ActivityPub <theregister.com/2025/01/14/fre…>



“#FreeOur Feeds is overseen by these nine: #NabihaSyed, executive director at #Mozilla Foundation; #RobinBerjon, independent technologist; #MarkSurman, president at Mozilla Foundation; #MalloryKnodel, executive director at #SocialWebFoundation; #EliPariser, co-founder of #Avaaz; #PhilBeaudoin, entrepreneur; #MarcFaddoul, co-founder of #AIForensics; #DeeptiDoshi, co-director at #New_ Public; and #SherifElsayedAli, executive director at #FutureofTechnologyInstitute.

And the group arrives with endorsements from a set of celebrities, academics, entrepreneurs, politicians, journalists, and activists, including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Harvard Business School Professor Emerita Shoshana Zuboff, Incredible Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo, and activist and author Cory Doctorow.”

So this is the kind of grab bag technology Mozilla is backing to “secure the Internet” while slurping user data?

<theregister.com/2025/01/14/fre…>


“Principle 4. Individuals’ #security and #privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.”

“The Mozilla #Manifesto Addendum

Pledge for a Healthy #Internet

The open, global internet is the most powerful communication and collaboration resource we have ever seen. It embodies some of our deepest hopes for human progress. It enables new opportunities for learning, building a sense of shared humanity, and solving the pressing problems facing people everywhere.

Over the last decade we have seen this promise fulfilled in many ways. We have also seen the power of the internet used to magnify divisiveness, incite violence, promote hatred, and intentionally manipulate fact and reality. We have learned that we should more explicitly set out our aspirations for the human experience of the internet. We do so now.”

Lol 🤪 Principles

#mozilla <mozilla.org/en-US/about/manife…>



“The #nonprofit organization (#Mozilla) that supports the #Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by #KrebsOnSecurity forced #Onerep’s #CEO to admit that he has founded dozens of people-search networks over the years.” 1)

Where are the #Mozilla “Conflict of Interest Policy Documents” outlined in <assets.mofoprod.net/network/do…>?

Reference
[1] <krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mo…>


“On February 27, 2025, #Mozilla changed their #FAQ, removing a statement, that they have never and never will sell their users' #PersonalData. The change in the FAQ followed the introduction of terms of use on February 26th, 2025 granting Mozilla "a #nonexclusive, #RoyaltyFree, worldwide #license" to all #information uploaded or input through Firefox”

🦖🤺

<github.com/mozilla/bedrock/com…> / <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla#…>


Please correct me if I'm wrong, but to my understanding, @mozillaofficial has in a matter of days:

  1. Added a disclaimer to give themselves a licence to anything entered into the browser:
    "When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox." ref


  2. Banned sexual content (porn)
    "Upload, download, transmit, display, or grant access to content that includes graphic depictions of sexuality or violence," ref


  3. Removed the disclaimer that they don't sell your data ref
  4. Embraced web manifest v3 (which breaks ad-blockers) ref

It genuinely looks like they're actively violating their founding principles, purging any & all good-will for the sake of going for-profit..

WTF is going on?

#firefox #mozilla


Si vous vous demandez ce que @mozillaofficial prépare dans votre dos en ajoutant des Term Of Service à Firefox qui lui octroient des droits délirants sur vos données, voici un petit indice :
L'intitulé d'un talk qui va être donné par Mozilla à RightCons :

Will generative AI turn into the next big ad platform?
🤢 🤮

#Mozilla
#Firefox
#ia #ai
#Bullshit
#Enshittification
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Advertising
#Marketing
#ByTheWayIfAnyoneHereIsInMarketingOrAdvertisingKillYourself



Can anyone, pretty please, tell me why
- either providing non-snap based packages
- or cleaning temporary files on app closing
are options so impossible to implement so noone at Mozilla bothered trying?
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
#mozilla #thunderbird #foss #linux #ubuntu #ux #degeneracy


Anything you say or do in Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one will not be provided for you because capitalism is working exactly as designed.

blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…

connect.mozilla.org/t5/discuss…

#Mozilla #Firefox #TermsOfUse #SiliconValley #BigTech #USA #AI