Don_alForno

Not even the lemmy instance you're on needs a license to your content, and it is stored there and displayed for the world to see. Why is that? Because storing and displaying your posts is the very thing you want it to do. That is the service it is providing for you, and you declare that you want it to do that by clicking "send". They would need a license if they wanted to do anything else with your stuff, which doesn't directly have to do with displaying your posts in the fediverse.

The browser is supposed to take my requests and inputs, carry them to the server that I'm talking to and bring back the answer. The mail doesn't need a license to my letters. That only changes if they want to open them and do something I originally had not intended.

But you know who claims a license to your content? Meta. Because you're the product there, not the costumer.

And let's remember that the last thing Mozilla got heat for was the introduction of a method to anonymize bulk user data for sharing & selling purposes, ~~as opposed~~ in addition to the granular, extremely invasive tracking that 99% of websites are doing these days.

Ftfy. It's never going to replace more invasive tracking and just constitutes yet another party collecting my data.

I see a company that needs to make a decent amount of money

Mozilla already makes enough money from passive investment income. They don't need to make any money from Firefox at all (but they do, it's from google). They also don't need to pay their CEO 6 Million a year.

Edit: Typo

2%

It's called inflation.

Then how about putting that in the language? "We don't sell your data, except if you're in California, because they consider x, y and z things we might actually do as selling data."

The browser manufacturer doesn't need a license to my inputs to process them and give them to the server it's supposed to give them to. If you type a text in Libre office, does it ask you for a license to the text in order to save it?

I switched to waterfox. Looks pretty much the same, no issues so far.

Switched yesterday, feeling right at home so far.

Which jurisdictions? What kind of broad way? Give one example please. I dare you.

Firefox is in the process of enshittifying.

If your friend is an EU citizen, they might have some luck with a GDPR request to delete all their data.

They also might not. Meta technically would have to comply, but there is no real way to know if they did.