You're wrong about Firefox. You're reading the text as a techie, not as a lawyer.
I spent a considerable amount of time at Sony as a Software Engineer and Open Source Advocate working with Legal. While they learnt lots from me, I learnt how they view things. We can claim they're "wrong", but with that knowledge it's become a lot easier to understand both the Legalese and the _extreme_ lengths they go to to make sure they're protected for all eventualities. From a legal point of view, they see it as extremely dangerous to be just a tiny bit wrong whilst over-reaching in a ToS is just sane. So, no, they're not selling your data. They're just extremely worried that somehow some layer somewhere would be able to stretch an argument that somehow they would win at some point.
Here's about Brother: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/
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