cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26136291

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.

  • SpaceTurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    222·
    4 hours ago

    This seems out of context. The same git commit that removes the paragraph OP pointed out also adds the following text:

    “We believe the internet is for people, not profit. Unlike other companies, we don’t sell access to your data. You’re in control over who sees your search and browsing history. All that and exceptional performance too.”

    To me that seems more like a re-wording than a fundamental change.

    Edit: I somewhat misread the commit, as @[email protected] pointed out below.

      • SpaceTurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Huh, you’re absolutely right, I haven’t noticed that. Now, to be fair the text without the text isn’t that much different but it does exclude the explicit promise not to sell data. The text shown without the flag set – and is currently shown on the Firefox website – states:

        “… we believe the internet is for people, not profit. You’re in control over who sees your search and browsing history. All that and exceptional performance too.”

        So the sentence “Unlike other companies, we don’t sell access to your data.” Is missing. So yeah, i agree, not great. But we’ll see what actually happens.

        To be clear, my intention isn’t to defend Mozzila, for example I really don’t like their privacy policy allows them to “collect technical and interaction data, such as the position, size, views and clicks on New Tab content or ads, to understand how people are interacting with our content and to personalize future content, including sponsored content.” I just don’t like drawing wide-sweeping conclusions based on things like wording changes.

    • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
      51·
      6 hours ago

      Also seems like typical Lunduke trying to make something out of nothing. Dude loves to fearmonger, especially about Mozilla. I’m not saying Mozilla hasn’t done things I dislike, but Lunduke has had it out for them since Brendan Eich stepped down over his opposition to gay rights.