From the new terms:
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.
For me the problem is the use of the phrase “to help you…” because I think that means something different, something more, than what you’re saying it means. That’s not a phrasing that evokes, to me, the deterministic nature of the way a web browser operates (or used to operate). Traditionally, I give a web browser a command and it executes it, such as “go to this web address” or “print this page” or “save this as a bookmark”. Helping me, on the other hand, would involve some processing of data to attempt to understand my desires. I don’t want Mozilla or Firefox to be doing that at all.
Maybe it’s just “readable” language that is read much more narrowly legally to mean just what you’re saying. But maybe it opens the door for Mozilla to use it to help me experience online content by learning my habits and demographics in order to lead me to places I indicated I would be interested in by my use of the browser.
Exactly. I’m concerned they’ll use it to train an AI or something to “help me” use the internet and “make the most” of their services. I don’t want that, I want the browser to… browse, and only what I tell it I want to browse.
I understand that, but I’ve seen that language commonly used in nearly identical clauses before, and as far as I’m aware, the courts seem to interpret that as “to do the thing that’s required, or to make it more possible than otherwise,” rather than “anything they deem to be ‘helpful’”