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4·14 hours agoThe legal definition of “sell” has changed in several major markets, and that’s (supposedly) why Firefox has recently changed their terms. The word “sell” is now ostensibly broad enough to include “give to anybody for any reason”, including if you use Firefox for any reason where you would legitimately want and need Firefox to give (“sell”) your data - for example if you use it for: literally any shopping or even just browsing store pages; any interactive (real world) maps where you may want to use your location; any searches where you want local businesses to be listed; any search engine that may want to use your location to aid in results; etc. etc. etc.
Any legitimate exchange of data can now be construed as “selling” because of the new legal definitions, regardless of if anyone is actually selling anything.
It’s very possible that nothing has changed - that Firefox hasn’t started selling user data, they’re just updating their terms (and this app listing) to reflect the changes in the legal definitions of “sell”.
Zero DMs for me and now I’m sad
Where do you appeal? I have no loyalty to reddit, but I do have a lot of posts saved on my account that I’d like to save before the account is abandoned.
And yeah lol same. I’ve been clicking on people’s accounts to see when they joined Lemmy, and it seems like a lot of people have come here within the past two weeks. I guess a lot of people feel the same lol
Wow. This started for me two days ago. I guess Reddit went on a spree recently
Edit: started ~ March 5, 2025? Boost for Reddit stopped working for me. I thought it was a Reddit action, but it may be Boost’s dev intentionally killing the app
How recently did this happen to you? I get errors now too and am wondering if there was a recent Reddit ban wave
Fuck Reddit
Which parts do you disagree with? I’m not talking about websites selling your data after you access them through Firefox, I’m saying that now - with new definitions of “sale”/“sell” - that Firefox giving anybody any data for almost any reason can be legally construed as “selling”. This isn’t just the case for Firefox, it’s the case for literally any web browser, and anything that can access the internet for any reason.
Yes, I thought about including the fact that Firefox does engage in ad-based revenue, and I suppose I should’ve, but Firefox is pretty upfront about this and allows users to opt out of targeted advertising - and this has been the case since long before this past week or two. These ads only appear on the “new tab” page, and only if you consent to seeing them. Anybody who’s dropping Firefox for this recent controversy seens to be missing that. It’s very possible (and personally I think it’s likely) that nothing at all has changed from within Firefox.