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Kevin Okemwa

Firefox users slam Mozilla over controversial data privacy update — while ironically using "the biggest data-mining operating system in the world (aka Microsoft Windows)"

A Mozilla Firefox logo seen displayed on a smartphone. .

Last week, Mozilla was trapped between a rock and a hard place after making a controversial update to its developer's Terms of Use (via PCGamer).

The update received backlash from Firefox users, especially because of a section indicating that Mozilla had the right to leverage user data, including "a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox."

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