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Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by spacechild1 on Friday February 28, 2025 @08:38PM (#43214582)
Ah, you are totally right! They do indeed have a separate ToS for the official binaries ("Downloadable software"), see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/.

However, the "acceptable use" clauses that OP complains about are not part of these ToST Rather they seem to apply to Mozilla "services", which are related to Firefox accounts (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/services/)

Side note: strangely, there is no link to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/acceptable-use/ on the main legal site (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal).

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Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by odo1242 on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:32PM (#43215018)
The ToS has a link to the Acceptable Use Policy and says that use of Firefox must conform to it.
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Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" by spacechild1 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:58AM (#43217066)
You are right! That's really confusing since the acceptable use clauses themselves talk about Firefox services. Their lawyers need to get their shit together.
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