Why does Mozilla now require a “nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license” when entering information in Firefox?

Apparently [since somewhat of mid-Februrary 2025, according to the Archive.org Wayback Machine] (and February 25, 2025, as per the change date), you have a new Terms of Use (ToS) for Firefox, which also state:

It says (highlighting by me):

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.

Previous versions did not contain this, so what’s up here?

This does not sound really good for an organization like yours or Firefox in general, so what is up here? People on Mastodon are wondering and so do I.
This legal foo is new, and you had to have some reason to include it?

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I would like to know this too - since these conditions are totally unacceptable unless they were opt-in or for some extra service.
And sorry, I need a browser which can display the web content of my choice - think I’ll do the navigation and the interaction with online content myself.

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