Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.
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That's not true, for many years Firefox was basically financed by Google for being the default search engine, because Google didn't want Microsoft to monopolize Internet Browsers. Everybody who had the slightest interest knew that.
But that's completely irrelevant, it's a very marginal source of revenue today, and Firefox does not sell user info to Google. So it's on Google to warn about using Google search.
The only reason for the change in Firefox privacy terms was for clarification. For instance any information given to Firefox, does not grant Firefox ownership of it. (opposite of for instance Facebook)
That's a guarantee of user protection, not the opposite. Firefox has a very limited scope of "using" user data, like for instance storing links with Firefox, so they work across multiple devices.
There is no "harvesting" of user behavior or information.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/