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Mozilla has just deleted the following:

“Does Firefox sell your personal data?”

“Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "

Source: Lundke journal.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

~~They removed that question from the FAQ, but it still states in multiple other sections, in the same link, that they do not sell user data~~

~~Am I reading this wrong?~~

Edit: New FAQ

Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data“), and we don’t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data“ is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).

[–] [email protected] 80 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Ah, so it's not that they sell data, it's that they share data in order to achieve commercial viability. I don't sell items on ebay, I share them in a commercially viable way!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, this kind of semantic gymnastics is what makes them so suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago

“You’re gonna make a lot of money?”

“Yep.”

“And the data’s not yours?”

“Well, it becomes ours.”

Applicable to so many tech things

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago

I am so fucking tired of PR speak. This is removed now so that they can sell your data later. That and the ToS change is the canary in the coalmine.

"We akchually don't sell your data because it isn't the legal definition everywhere". Fuck you

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I feel like it would've been really helpful if it had provided an example of something that legally counts as "selling your data", but that any sane person would not define as such.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Marked as deprecated and will be removed outright not to be replaced.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago