I don’t think we’ve been reading the same link. In any case, I don’t think this conversation is going in a useful direction, so I’ll part ways here.

Point taken and I appreciate the correction, but it still seems to include e.g. all URLs which could leak all your search queries and other rather invasive conclusions. If anything, this makes me feel like it confirms Mozilla does sell data it shouldn’t.

The terms of use link goes nowhere, so I honestly don’t know.

But I feel like it doesn’t matter whether it is, for the sake of discussing where gen AI seems to be leading FOSS…

Lemmy currently seems to consider embracing it too, sadly. Feels potentially short-sighted to me, idk.

Yeah, I find it scary how many projects embrace gen AI despite all the training data controversies. I’ve tried to convince some not to, but it’s hard. Even the Linux kernel appears to be using it now. It’s sad.

I suppose, but then the “training data plagiarism” moral question remains. Rate seems to be like 2-5% for what they can pin down: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583199 I’m guessing that means the hidden actual rate might be higher… and there are the high profile incidents.

I assumed it was real because people seem to be doing this for real: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/

And outside of that supposed “clean room” AI trend, all the gen AI coders seem to be ignoring that apparently AI is plagiarizing training data too. And it seems to happen randomly and unpredictably even for who you would think are expert users, Microslop themselves: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-uses-plagiarized-ai-slop-flowchart-to-explain-how-github-works-removes-it-after-original-creator-calls-it-out-careless-blatantly-amateuristic-and-lacking-any-ambition-to-put-it-gently/

Seems like it might be satire after all: https://malus.sh/blog.html Will update my post in a second. But the trend seems to be real, with others discussing the effects on the GPL too: https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/

Yeah, or the leaked Windows XP source code. Every day any gen AI code use feels more to me like license laundering, if anything then of the training data that was involved. And I mean this purely as a gut feeling, I have no idea what a court would say. But it feels wrong.

It means “I am not a lawyer”, which I really am not 🥺 so don’t trust me on what any of this means. Other than morally it seems messed up and sad…

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It seems like the official original source for this video is Youtube.

The linked reports don’t seem too useful since 1. the first one seems some automated scan not a code review, and 2. the second one is “Firefox Accounts” and not a browser code review. My apologies if I"m missing something.

I personally think you shouldn’t run software that accesses such intricate personal information if you don’t trust it, if it can be updated to change to grab all that data. Especially since Mozilla seems to potentially give itself a license to all your data, apparently. Update: This seems to only apply to “Mozilla Accounts”, my apologies for the error: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/services/

“Technical data”, “Interaction Data”, very specific, uh-uh. (I’m being sarcastic.) The latter especially sounds like it can be literally a keylogger. Update: it isn’t, see response, but it e.g. seems to include all sites and sub pages visited which already seems fairly bad.

I would love for Mozilla to fix this, which is why I try to be pragmatic and concrete. But so far, they don’t seem willing to do so.

My personal hope is if Firefox ever dies that the LibreWolf team will just use Chromium as a base instead. I’ll go wherever the LibreWolf team does.

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See here.

Do you audit every release of any open-source program you use before you run it?

Open-source alone isn’t enough if the creators are known to do weird things.

I meant specifying the corner case of what exact type of data is shared, not an exhaustive list of companies it’s shared with that would inevitably go out of date.

That could be true, I honestly don’t know. The crypto stuff in Brave definitely seems weird.

I think to be fully safe, you would have to get prompted for any type of USB device including a mouse and keyboard. At least I think that’s the idea of USBGuard.