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Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data. (github.com)
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26136291

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] 15 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

On a Lemmy I'm always the person who thinks people are overreacting or exaggerating. But this really does seem like the end of firefox as a privacy champion (which, apart from being nonprofit, was my only real reason for using it). I think I will make a donation to ladybird.

Another thing: their acceptable use policy straight up forbids viewing pornography or graphic violence. No nuance or exceptions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Another thing: their acceptable use policy straight up forbids viewing pornography or graphic violence. No nuance or exceptions.

I might have violated that, but then again I didn't read the TOS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Your TOS can't stop me, I can't read!