Question Firefox 135 released

[balloonshark]

Looks like a pretty major update. I guess some of the features are being progressively rolled out to the users.

Firefox 135.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

www.mozilla.org

I wonder if they are backing off their privacy stance?

• The “Do Not Track” checkbox has been removed from preferences. If you wish to ask websites to respect your privacy, you can use the “Tell websites not to sell or share my data” setting instead. This option is built on top of the Global Privacy Control (GPC).

• The "Copy Without Site Tracking" menu item was renamed to "Copy Clean Link" to help clarify expectations around what the feature does. "Copy Clean Link" is a list based approach to remove known tracking parameters from links. This option can also now be used on plain text links.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

Hmmm . . . Mozilla can use anything you type or upload with FF. (I've only seen the first 2 minutes of this video)

 

[balloonshark]

Hmmm . . . Mozilla can use anything you type or upload with FF. (I've only seen the first 2 minutes of this video)

I'm not a lawyer and I didn't watch the video. I did search firefox forums and found this.

Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of t

blog.mozilla.org

UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice.

From the terms of use:

You Give Mozilla Certain Rights and Permissions​

You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

There are a bunch of options in Privacy & Security in Firefox settings you could set.

Other options are under the search - address bar section. I untick Suggestions from Firefox, Suggestions from sponsors, Improve the Firefox Suggest experience. And depending on your preferences you may want to untick the search engines option.