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On Wednesday, Mozilla introduced legal updates to users of Firefox, and something feels off. I read, and re-read the new Terms of Use and while much of it reads like standard boilerplate from any tech company, there’s a new section that is unexpected:

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[–] troed@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

Legalese is always written broadly. As with absolutely everything that touches on IP the ones that yell the loudest are the ones that understand the subject the least.

browsers traditionally send what you type into the address bar to a search engine, not to the author of the web browser

The search bar doesn't say that will happen, so what legal right does the makers of Firefox have to suddenly send what you type there to some other third party service? You know, that "input information through Firefox".

That's what the license covers. You giving them that right. You don't need to agree with this, but that's how it's done - legally.