Comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7
1 year ago
HN title: "Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
"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."
This is a license to use, not ownership. If Mozilla owns the information then it does not need a license.
Licenses to use information can be revoked, i.e., terminated.
Good catch—thanks! I've put that more accurate quote in the title above (or rather, a shortened version that fits HN's 80 char limit).
Edit: merging into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065, which had that title.