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[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I know this is humor lemmy, but is this real?

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but out of context. They refactored their policies to make them legally correct, this was an intermediate step. There is another comment with the current policies linked in it.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago

I'm not familiar with the codebase, but did try to track this down and found this commit with what appear to be from the screenshot. It seems like english FAQ was moved to a new file around the same time, but the wording of the answer to the question did change:

{ -brand-name-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 { -brand-name-firefox } commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like <a { $attrs }>OHTTP