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.

  • ghurab@lemmy.world
    17·
    8 hours ago

    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?

    Edit: New FAQ

    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 Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
      9·
      8 hours ago

      I feel like it would’ve been really helpful if it had provides an example of something that legally counts as “selling your data”, but that any sane person would not define as such.

    • TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org
      29·
      8 hours ago

      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!