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New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days ago (2 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.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

If data can be abused it will be abused.

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You use your own software and read bug reports.

[–] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

That only gives you a biased and incomplete insight.