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Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use after user backlash | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

For instance, Mozilla said it may have removed blanket claims that it never sells user data because the legal definition of “sale of data” is now “broad and evolving,” Mozilla’s blog post stated.

Uh huh.

The company pointed to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as an example of why the language was changed, noting that the CCPA defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

Yes. That's what "sale of data" means. Everybody understood that. That's exactly what we don't want you to do.

[–] remington@beehaw.org 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Read the last bits at the end of the article though:

Firefox does collect and share some data with its partners, Mozilla said, including data that helps to power its optional ads on the New Tab page in the browser and for sponsored suggestions in the search bar, which are detailed in its Privacy Notice. However, the company says that the user data it does share is stripped of personally identifying information and is only shared in aggregate.

Users can continue to adjust their own data-sharing settings in the browser, Mozilla also said.

Personally, this doesn't compel me to stop using Firefox.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 3 hours ago

I agree. It's like the era of banners: until there were some I was ok with them, not annoying me and the site gotta pay bills somehow. But then we got audio, video, popping and moving banners, ones that track your every move and kidnap your cat for ransom.. if we can somehow back track a little I'm not opposed to it.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

Yeah I really don't know how they thought that was a good explanation for them to remove the "we won't sell your data" stuff. Absolutely bonkers.

[–] cercello@mastodon.bida.im 3 points 1 day ago

@GenderNeutralBro @Greenpepper

I assume they meant it as confusing when you use firefox to, for example, buy a product.

I may be wrong though.