Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users’ personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn’t fundamentally changed. Until recently, a Firefox FAQ promised that the browser maker never has and never will sell its users’ personal data. An archived version from January 30 says:
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.
That promise is removed from the current version. There’s also a notable change in a data privacy FAQ that used to say, “Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you, and we don’t buy data about you.”
The data privacy FAQ now explains that Mozilla is no longer making blanket promises about not selling data because some legal jurisdictions define “sale” in a very broad way:
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).
Mozilla didn’t say which legal jurisdictions have these broad definitions.
I’m a happy Brave user. I love the fact that you don’t have to sign up for an account just to sync stuff.
Corps are for profit, and Mozilla is a Corp… Really sad times indeed.
How do you install Ironfox on Android? You just side load the APK?
Should be able to install it via Obtanium using https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
There also seems to be a f-droid repo.
It’s available on https://accrescent.app/ as well
There are more privacy-respecting forks of Firefox. Might be time to move to one of those. Librewolf springs to mind.
But they are dependent on the continued existence of Firefox, so it’s still concerning when Mozilla alienates their users.
It is concerning - because Firefox barely has enough users to sustain it.
If no one takes on the development of Gecko, we’re in the soup. It’s the only alternative to blink and WebKit. Tor relies on it .
It is concerning - because Firefox barely has enough users to sustain it.
Er… if you think Mozilla is sustained by its users then I have some bad news for you. Or am I misunderstanding you?
Mozilla is funded by google to promote the search . But how much longer are they gonna pay if no one uses it ?
Everyone talks about Firefox but I think Ungoogled Chromium deserves a big mention around these parts. I’m sure the privacy community can find a way around on Ungoogled Chromium if FF ceases to exist one day.
The concern about using Chromium-based browsers is just that, if they become utterly dominant, Google gains de facto control of all web standards.
Agreed, but Mozilla now sells your data. And they’re investing in useless rubbish (FOR THE LAST TIME I DON’T WANT AI IN MY BROWSER) and paying their CEO millions whilst their developers aren’t getting much of the pie.
Dude, Lemmy users are so annoying sometimes. One little from a tech corporation, and then I see the same repeated news in 5 different communities. Along with all the US-centric posts.
