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They literally said they had rights to everything you typed into Firefox, and then said for "necessary" purposes. Then in the same stroke of the pen removed all references to "Never selling your data". Nope, it's black and white for me. This video can try and convince me that "I don't understand legalese", but I read it right there.
Legalese is just very precise wording. When they use something as vague as "necessary" without defining what necessary means - it means it has no definition. Necessary to who? For them to operate Firefox but will never leave my PC? Then that would have been something they could have written into the actual agreement. Does it mean Necessary for Mozilla to maintain their market position by selling data? Again, we have no idea because it wasn't written down. No, the vagueness was there on purpose. They know what data I'm typing into my browser and how much it's worth.
And I haven't even mentioned how they tried to tell me how I could not use my browser on my computer to look at "explicit imagery".
No, fuck Mozilla, they were very clear in what they said.
I don’t get what other options we have though. Some say forks others say safari.
Personally I switched to LibreWolf and it's a drop in replacement. I don't know if it'll be my forever decision, but I've been using it for 4 straight days and don't even notice it.