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  • If you’re upset about that, you know nothing about IP law.

    If you do not grant Firefox a license to use your information, the only thing they can legally do is destroy it. So no storing of bookmarks, usernames/passwords, search history, browsing history, no saving your open tabs so your next session picks up where the last ended, none of the things that we all expect of a modern browser. Without that, you’re basically left with just a URL bar with no search ability.

    They’d gotten by without that clause for a while despite being technically illegal in the EU and California. And again: what’s the alternative? Chromium has the same thing, and no Firefox fork can exist without mainline Firefox.