Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox | Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice
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Chromium I guess? Let’s wait and see first.
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The actual addition to the terms is essentially this:
- If you choose to use the optional AI chatbot sidebar feature, you're subject to the ToS and Privacy Policy of the provider you use, just as if you'd gone to their site and used it directly. This is obvious.
- Mozilla will collect light data on usage, such as how frequently people use the feature overall, and how long the strings of text are that are being pasted in. That's basically it.
The way this article describes it as "cushy caveats" is completely misleading. It's quite literally just "If you use a feature that integrates with third party services, you're relying on and providing data to those services, also we want to know if the feature is actually being used and how much."
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That's good to know actually.
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How in the absolute fuck is chromium an alternative?
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Well, we had a good run lads, enshitification is here.
Any recommendations for open source alternatives that are convenient and also have an android app supporting ublock origin.
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The problem is the inclusion of the feature to begin with. It should be an opt in add install.
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AI is going to fail, and it can't happen soon enough. The Mozilla leadership really needs to pay attention to that reality.
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Mozilla leadership needs to be removed
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It's not going to disappear, it has its place, but its not going to be shoehorned into every single thing.
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I agree to a point, but I look at this similar to how I'd view any feature in a browser. Sometimes there are features added that I don't use, and thus, I simply won't use them.
This would be a problem for me if it was an "assistant" that automatically popped up over pages I was on to offer "help," but it's not. It's just a sidebar you can click a button in the menu to pop out, or you can never click that button and you'll never have to look at it.
It's not a feature that auto-enables in a way that actually starts sending data to any AI company, it's just an optional interface, that you have to click a specific button to open, that can then interface with a given AI model if you choose to use it. If you don't want to use it, then you ideally won't even see it open during your use of Firefox.
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librewolf on pc and ironfox on android. both forks of firefox.
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Danke danke
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So phone-home telemetry that you can't opt out of. The ghost of Mitchell Baker will haunt us forever.
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Librewolf, Servo looks promising but is very far off and just an engine I think? Idk I keep looking at it and want it.
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So phone-home telemetry that you can’t opt out of.
You can opt out of it. You've always been able to opt out of Mozilla's telemetry. Not to mention that if you actually read the Privacy Notice, there's an entire section detailing every single piece of telemetry that Mozilla collects, and if you read the section very clearly titled "To provide AI chatbots," you'll see what's collected:
- Technical data
- Location
- Settings data
- Unique identifiers
- Interaction data
The consent required for the collection to even start:
Our lawful basis
Consent, when you choose to enable an AI Chatbot.
And links that lead to the page explaining how to turn off telemetry even if you're using the in-beta AI features.
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Privacy policies should legally be called surveillance policies.
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Why IronFox over fennec?
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Or "Invasion of Privacy" Policy
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Sorry, I realized I'm using my personal jargon in public again. When I said "AI," I meant this overhyped put-it-in-your-mouse garbage. When I'm talking about the actually useful stuff, I usually call it "ML."
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100%. I can't decide whether I think the organization being dissolved completely is a good idea or not, but I'm at least open to it.
