Firefox is Now the Worst Browser Ever

As of February 25th, 2025, this sentence has been added to the Firefox TOS:

“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.”

They also removed the part about not sharing data from their Terms of Use, which means they will almost certainly share your data. All the time. To everyone.

The Downfall

Firefox used to be my most used browser because I run various versions of Linux on all my home computers, but now I apparently have to find something else to use, and I urge you to as well if you also used Firefox. I find it ridiculous that they force a royalty-free license on every little bit of data that gets put into Firefox (yes i would be fine with a royalty license, i like money too). As user crlsktr on the Mozilla Discourse forums put so eloquently,

“I see this as a camera manufacturer claiming a license for the pictures I took with their camera. How I use the browser should not be the business of Mozilla.”

This sums up the situation perfectly.
If you need some alternate browsers for Linux, I personally use ungoogled-chromium, which is a version of chromium that has been, as you can expect, de-googled. But it still runs the chromium framework, so services like Grafana still support it.

All of the information on this post was taken from the Mozilla Firefox Terms of Use and a Mozilla Discourse post by user rugkx highlighting the change.  
 

Fuck you Mozilla,