TL;DR 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. We changed our language because some jurisdictions define “sell” more broadly than most people would usually understand that word. Firefox has built-in privacy and security features, plus options that let you fine-tune your data settings.
Firefox is the biggest non-chromium browser competitor, and was an advocate of privacy and not selling user data
But they recently did a 180, started selling user data, and are now shoving FF full of AI bloatware nobody wants
So the userbase is feeling very betrayed
Wait, selling user data? What did I miss?
Their argument is “we’re not selling your data, we’re selling our data about you.”
https://youtu.be/4litc5DxoHQ
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847R59
Removing “no we will never sell your data” from your Q/A page is not a good look
AFAIK an exaggeration. They are promoting “privacy respecting ad metrics”.
It’s not an exaggeration
They are selling user data for profit. It’s anonymized sure, but it’s still selling user data
Oh. So they are. Thanks.