Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox | The Mozilla Blog
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UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of t

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???

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    1·
    17 hours ago

    Most people want features like AI

    That’s just not true.

    as someone who runs local inference all the time, i think that centralized online models have no place anywhere near consumers. partly because the things they offer are trivial and offload critical skills, partly because they require insane amounts of energy, and partly because they are privacy nightmares. all things that are against moz’s stated mission. and yet here we are.

    • Vivendi@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      23 minutes ago

      This is the only decent comment that I’ve got on this entire thread

      And you seem to be right, I agree with your sentiment. If the features are unneeded, then this is the wrong step to take. The best option would be for Mozilla (who are behind Ollama I think?) to offer a locally run open model, any potato capable of running a modern browser should be able to handle 1B-7B models