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[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Firefox is the biggest non-chromium browser competitor, and was an advocate of privacy and not selling user data

But they recently did a 180, started selling user data, and are now shoving FF full of AI bloatware nobody wants

So the userbase is feeling very betrayed

[–] morto@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wait, selling user data? What did I miss?

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://youtu.be/4litc5DxoHQ

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

TL;DR 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. We changed our language because some jurisdictions define “sell” more broadly than most people would usually understand that word. Firefox has built-in privacy and security features, plus options that let you fine-tune your data settings.

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847R59

Removing "no we will never sell your data" from your Q/A page is not a good look

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Their argument is “we’re not selling your data, we’re selling our data about you.”

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AFAIK an exaggeration. They are promoting "privacy respecting ad metrics".

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not an exaggeration

They are selling user data for profit. It's anonymized sure, but it's still selling user data

[–] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Nothing in that post proofs that they sell any user data?

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

Oh. So they are. Thanks.