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It also now is against the terms of service to use Firefox for illegal activity or to use it to watch porn.
Does this actually surprise anyone?
The split between non-profit and for profit corporation and the amount the ceo earns should have warned anyone that they are not saints and will sell out their community if it makes them money.
Until now it was just smart for them to be the wolf in disguise. I guess selling the data makes them more money than keeping false front.
Soon the only private option left will be to curl the website, read the html and picture it in my head.
stallman was right
Are there any specifics about this? It all seems fairly theoretical to me. What do they [want to] do that contradicts "doesn't sell your personal data" within the context of the fluid definition of "sell"? Do they sell my personal data or don't they? What definitions of "sell" are relevant here?
It's all sounding a bit Bill Clinton to me: "it depends on your definition of 'is'."
They get access to everything to do in Firefox
The ambiguity is the smoking gun.
One thing to keep in mind is thar mozilla is now an ad company and can use this data itself for whatever advertising it wants to sell, so they dont even need a third party they can just sell targeted ads directly to companies while not technically "sharing" the info they gather to anyone.
Basically, why sell the data to other people when you can profit from using it directly?
Now that Mozilla's fucked. What's the next option that's not Chromium?
Librewolf, degoogled chromium, private windows. If you don't want your data to be sold, don't give out your data.
It do be a slippery slope though
Ladybird in a few years, forks of Firefox for now.
Disable tor in tor browser.
In Firefox, type about:config in address bar, search for "sponsored" and "telemetry" and set all the paremeters you see from TRUE to FALSE. Done.
How can ome do this on mobile? Doesn't run search on the terms or load a config page.
We shouldn't have to do workarounds like that in the first place. It's getting to be like the Stockholm syndrome people have about Windows abuses. I didn't put up that shit, and I'm not gonna put up with this either.