Fix your terms of use

[wolfwalks]

> You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. 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.

This language is not present in ANY other web browser's terms of use. I am a professional artist and this is a direct attack on my rights to my own content that I made with my own two hands. I'm not granting Mozilla rights to jack **bleep**. Firefox used to be the browser I recommended to everyone, for such great support and so many great features. If this doesn't get changed, I'll switch so fast it'll make your head spin.

Change it or I walk, and I'll tell my friends to walk too. This is embarrassing for Mozilla.

[Anonymous]

The phrase "acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet" is also incredibly broad.  It almost reads like we are giving FireFox power of attorney to go out and sign up for stuff on our behalf.  It smells like some of the new AI agents I have heard about that drive your browser for you, which is frankly horrifying from my perspective.  I definitely would not want any kind of AI agent "acting on my behalf" in the future because unfortunately the current landscape for consumers today is such that things people "navigate" on the internet can have legal implications, and the tech companies appear to be the ones writing the rules about these things rather than consumers.

[wolfwalks]

The audacity with which Mozilla acts like users will just roll over and accept unhinged crypto, AI, and other BS "experiments" they decide to enact on us is **bleep**ing unthinkable. They have proven over and over that they want to push boundaries to stay competitive. Sure, sounds great. But the moment you assign YOURSELF license to MY stuff, with extraordinarily expansive verbiage, I am no longer cool with that. These terms need to be narrowed down significantly before I will accept them. The browser market sucks in 2025 but I am literally more willing to sit down with each member of my family and each of my friends and take hours to configure each person's weird browser, than I am willing to accept over-reaching terms of use from a browser that happily advertises a password manager.

[wolfwalks]

Hey Firefox:

https://www.osnews.com/story/141825/mozilla-deletes-promise-not-to-sell-firefox-users-data/

This is a pretty bad look.

[wolfwalks]

UPDATE:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/

It's frustrating because this is a step, but it's still a mealy-mouthed step, like a dog whimpering after you scold them. For a browser and a company that makes a big hullabaloo about online freedoms and privacy, it's still a terrible look, but it's better and the criticism has been acknowledged.

For myself, I'm going to explore alternatives anyway, because it's never a bad idea to have multiple web browsers. I hope that moving forward Mozilla will be more transparent about the changes they make: removing the "we don't sell your data" would have been much less of a slap in the face of the answer had simply been updated to clarify the information necessary for the California consumer laws. There were ways to communicate this information that didn't involve mass confusion and instead of testing their messaging and thinking things through, Mozilla loaded the gun, aimed at its own foot, and shot off several rounds at once.

Like I said: embarrassing, and counter to the purported goals of the company. You can do better, now, tomorrow, and every day after. At least **bleep**ing ask for feedback on your messaging, jesus christ.