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- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- firefox@lemmy.world
Mozilla has just deleted the following:
“Does Firefox sell your personal data?”
“Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "
Source: Lundke journal.
They removed that question from the FAQ, but it still states in multiple other sections, in the same link, that they do not sell user data.
Am I reading this wrong?
I feel like it would’ve been really helpful if it had provided an example of something that legally counts as “selling your data”, but that any sane person would not define as such.
Ah, so it’s not that they sell data, it’s that they share data in order to achieve commercial viability. I don’t sell items on ebay, I share them in a commercially viable way!
Yeah, this kind of semantic gymnastics is what makes them so suspicious.
“You’re gonna make a lot of money?”
“Yep.”
“And the data’s not yours?”
“Well, it becomes ours.”
Applicable to so many tech things
I am so fucking tired of PR speak. This is removed now so that they can sell your data later. That and the ToS change is the canary in the coalmine.
“We akchually don’t sell your data because it isn’t the legal definition everywhere”. Fuck you
Interesting, did you go check the merge request? Because I quote:
Yes, that’s from post-change.
Have you looked through the proposed PR linked in this post?
It doesn’t matter that Mozilla has backtracked after the backlash. It matters that they’ve shown us where they want to go, and its not good. They will try to push the change again until it works.
Yeah I quote from that PR, in fact. That’s where I got that from.
Then you are obtuse on purpose because the PR removed the part where they explicitly say they won’t sell your data.
Marked as deprecated and will be removed outright not to be replaced.
Oh, thanks.