Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data

Re:Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data by tgsovlerkhgsel on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:13AM (#43205805)

I generally wait before jumping on the outrage-train for this reason, but two things stand out:

- Mozilla explicitly deleting "we don't sell your data" statements across their documentation

- Following up to criticism that the statement is vague, bullshitty and open to interpretation with statements that are even more vague, bullshitty and open to interpretation.

By now, they've had time to notice that something is not right and that they need to make a clear statement, and they haven't taken the opportunity.

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Re:Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data by nusl on Friday February 28, 2025 @10:06AM (#43206408)

They didn't delete it. Go to the github diff they reference and check. It's still there. They just removed it from one of the JSON files but people here aren't actually checking facts, they're just jumping on the hate train.

See: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b...

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Re:Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data by olyjohn on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:18PM (#43208681)

People love to hate Firefox. Reinforces their reasons for using the shiny big brands.

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Re:Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data by gunsle on Sunday March 02, 2025 @09:02AM (#43230583)

at this point, it’s Mozilla that loves to hate Firefox and its users, not Firefox users themselves

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Re:Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data by crtasm on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:52PM (#43209001)

So where is that paragraph found on their website?

The relevant section isn't what you linked to - scroll down to the change in structured-data-firefox-faq.html

Here is the previous version of the FAQ: https://web.archive.org/web/20250128115051/https://www.mozil...

Here it is now: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/faq/

All three statements about not selling your personal data are gone.

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Re:Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data by nusl on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:00PM (#43210731)

Good point. I checked the page it should be on, and the switch has disabled it. I checked also https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#lawful-bases and it smells like Firefox is selling its users out.

Specially bits like this: "This data may be shared with our advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis."

Apologies for my previous defense of Firefox. I can't find a reason to defend them anymore.

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