Refresh at 10:20 AM: Mozilla is since Announced License change to deal with user grievances. Now it says, “You give Mozilla the rights to run Firefox. It includes action on your data, as we describe in Firefox Privacy Notice. It has no new, royalty -free, no license from this world for the purpose of applying with your input in Firefox.”
Mozilla also took heat from consumers by Mozilla’s employee Contact. One person wrote, “This is not a question of messaging or clarifying.” “You can’t ask your customers to give their data to these broader rights. This agreement, as currently written, is not acceptable.”
Mozilla announced the new terms of use and the latest privacy policy in one Blog Post After seeing the criticism on Wednesday, Mozilla added an explanation stating that the company needs a license to allow some of the basic functioning of Firefox to make it possible. Without it, we cannot use the information tipped in Firefox, for example – it uses us to use your data or use anything else.
One of the use I described Notice of privacy Consumer location data has to be done. Mozilla says he takes steps to anonymously and that user can completely stop functioning.
Mozilla can also receive a location -related keyword from your search (such as when you find “Boston”) and share it with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this happens, Mozilla once a search suggestion is made and the partner can never connect the search tips with an individual user, so Mozilla can not connect keyword search with an individual user. You can end this functionality by shutting down sponsored suggestions at any time. More information about this is available in the relevant. Firefox Support Page
Some users do not believe the need for a license to use data to provide basic functionality. Some users are not convinced. “This is a nastyness and you know.” The basic functionality is to download and present the web pages, “a person wrote in response to a request for Mozilla’s feedback.