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Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon.

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. 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.

mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/

Update: See below in the thread for their clarification.

Firefox: About Your RightsMozilla

This clause explicitly separates the information they claim license over from the data collected in the Privacy Notice. This clause is more expansive—"information uploaded through Firefox" is basically anything in a HTTP request or a websocket.

mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/fire

Firefox Privacy NoticeMozilla

I have spent my night reading browser Terms and Privacy Policies. Why? Because I love you and hate myself, apparently.

So here's the deal: that "non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license" you're granting to Firefox/Moz when you upload data through it? It is boilerplate language. Pretty common actually!

But not in browsers. In fact, not a single browser ToS has anything resembling this provision.

Know what does?

Facebook
X
Instagram

I wonder why Mozilla would want to use the same language those platforms do.

Meta Terms of Servicewww.facebook.com
mountain

@mttaggart I notice they haven’t clarified the section on collecting data for “Compliance with law in responding to data subject rights requests, responding to law enforcement requests, managing and protecting our (and our users) rights, property and/or safety. Legitimate interest, where compliance is not appropriate, in supporting legal or regulatory processes or requests, preventing fraud and managing and protecting our (and our users’) rights, property and/or safety.”