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[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 42 points 1 day 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 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wait, selling user data? What did I miss?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

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

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

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not an exaggeration

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

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 points 1 day ago

Oh. So they are. Thanks.