Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 8 months agoFirefox is adding a switch to turn AI features offwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1145
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minus-squareCosmicTurtle0 [he/him] ( CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 months agoMozilla are using a similar model to Microsoft and open sourcing Firefox code under the MPL while distributing the executable under a new Terms of Service. Firefox (the executable) is no longer considered FOSS since they can revoke your license at anytime. I posted a comment that details my personal view of this change. TL;DR: they would have only done this if they planned on farming user data. And last month announced that they intend to do just that.
Mozilla are using a similar model to Microsoft and open sourcing Firefox code under the MPL while distributing the executable under a new Terms of Service.
Firefox (the executable) is no longer considered FOSS since they can revoke your license at anytime. I posted a comment that details my personal view of this change.
TL;DR: they would have only done this if they planned on farming user data. And last month announced that they intend to do just that.