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AI Summary:

Overview:

  • Mozilla is updating its new Terms of Use for Firefox due to criticism over unclear language about user data.
  • Original terms seemed to give Mozilla broad ownership of user data, causing concern.
  • Updated terms emphasize limited scope of data interaction, stating Mozilla only needs rights necessary to operate Firefox.
  • Mozilla acknowledges confusion and aims to clarify their intent to make Firefox work without owning user content.
  • Company explains they don't make blanket claims of "never selling data" due to evolving legal definitions and obligations.
  • Mozilla collects and shares some data with partners to keep Firefox commercially viable, but ensures data is anonymized or shared in aggregate.
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[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago

cool, sounds good. (the Community gif where Troy walks into the room with Pizza, Pierce has been shot, and there's fire everywhere)

[–] acutfjg@feddit.nl 10 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Too late. I've already moved to another browser

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pornhub now remembers what sort of porn you like while browsing incognito. Is this also happening with other browsers? I just don't wanna have my wife know what kid of bdsm I really like. It keeps things fun that way. Fun, gun, hun, nun, are all too close on the keyboard. Autocorrect can't fix that.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

yet you missed the elephant in the room.

kid

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Pornhub now remembers what sort of porn you like while browsing incognito.

Are you sure? All incognito windows run in the same memory space. If you open one window and do something in it, that session data is available to any other open incognito window open. To clear this ALL incognito windows need to be closed. Once they are all closed, you should be able to open a single new one and have no remnants of the previous sessions left over for the website to know you. The exceptions to this are if they are tracking activity from your IP address or if they are using Browser Fingerprinting on your session so they know even if you come from a different IP they know its your computer.

I run into the IP tracking sometimes. The wife will be doing searches for some specific thing, and I'll see youtube recommendations show up on those topics even though I'm running youtube via incognito on completely different hardware (but we're both using the same public IP).

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[–] Glent@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Whats the alternative on android?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Waterfox if you are ok with getting it from the play store

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[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

I’m eagerly awaiting the new version but I already like it. They now admit that they are sharing and sometimes selling private data (anonymized or not, same thing).

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

The simple way to deal with this is through extensions. Collect anonymized data through an extension, let the user decide to opt-out if they want.

[–] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Too late for me personally, I've gone ahead and moved over to Zen.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Brodie thinks that they still left themselves some wiggle room for ""selling"" user data.

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