[Mozilla Blog] Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

The one good thing I can say about this new Terms of Use document is that it's not ridiculously long.

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 seems excessively broad, like it could be interpreted to allow Firefox to send that information to Mozilla instead of just passing it to the sites we intend to have it. Why else would they need us to grant them a license to it?

Is there a lawyer in the house?

Every once in a while, Mozilla may decide to update these Terms. We will post the updated Terms online. We will take your continued use of Firefox as acceptance of such changes. We will post an effective date at the top of this page to make it clear when we made our most recent update.

This notion that it's okay to unilaterally change the terms of a license, and impose those changes upon people without explicit agreement, is absurd. Moreover, it is not remotely reasonable to expect people to spend their lives constantly checking the posted licenses of all the software they use to see if any of them has changed.

I am disappointed in Mozilla here.

Terms of Use

Ah so we're just making shit up now.