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Wasn’t this just a change in the wording? They added a similar text in another file.
no, they do sell your data, they just make an effort to anonymize it:
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).
they used to think this technically didn’t count as “selling your data”, but some privacy laws are better written than they thought.
IIRC they just moved that text elsewhere
edit: MY BAD I RECALLED INCORRECTLY
Looking at the ars technica article shared in this thread, that does not seem to be the case. They just removed it.
Where? Because IIRC, they didn’t.
Mozilla tried to explain this change by, IIRC, claiming you had misunderstood, and that their behaviors ran afoul of the legal definition of “sell”. They did not clarify what they were doing, which could be counted as “sale.”
Ironically, after eroding almost all the trust in even much of their die-hard user base, they recently announced an AI initiative to “build the world’s most trusted software company”
(edit: fixed link)
Aside from typical American headline churn, I’m reminded of my faith in companies every time contract renewals come up for software at work. They spend so much time and effort attempting to make you feel valued and taken care of, then will flip the script without warning or logical reason
Re-evaluate your trust every year the same way they evaluate and honor customer contracts and pricing models
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You have misunderstood.
It is them saying “it never happened”, not me.
Oh, I get you now.
What is the best Firefox alternative?
I’m using Waterfox (based on Firefox but without the bloat), both desktop and mobile versions. Have nothing but good things to say about it.
A good middle ground between usability and privacy is also Zen Browser.
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