Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data
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I mean...if they pay for the service of external analization of data in exchange of money, how is that a sale of goods/data?
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Ask the lawmakers who wrote the laws with vague language, because according to them, that kind of activity could be considered a sale.
As a more specific example that is more one-sided, but still not technically a "sale," Mozilla has sponsored links on the New Tab page. (they can be disabled of course)
These links are provided by a third-party, relatively privacy protecting ad marketplace. Your browser downloads a list of links from them if you have sponsored links turned on, and no data is actually sent to their service about you. If you click a sponsored link, a request is sent using a protocol that anonymizes your identity, that tells them the link was clicked. That's it, no other data about your identity, browser, etc.
This generates revenue for Mozilla that isn't reliant on Google's subsidies, that doesn't actually sell user data. Under these laws, that would be classified as a sale of user data, since Mozilla technically transferred data from your device (that you clicked the sponsored link) for a benefit. (financial compensation)
However, I doubt anyone would call that feature "selling user data." But, because the law could do so, they have to clarify that in their terms, otherwise someone could sue them saying "you sold my data" when all they did was send a small packet to a server saying that some user, somewhere clicked the sponsored link.
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I didn't sell your shit, I collected it and shared it to keep myself comercially viable.
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I think this is a reasonable explanation.
But I also believe a large part of the firefox user base does not want any data about them collected by their browser, no matter if it is for commercial purposes or simply analytics / telemetry. Which is why the original statement "we will never sell any of your data" was just good enough for them, and anything mozilla is now saying is basically not good enough, no matter how much they clarify it to mean "not selling in the colloquial sense"
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Technically Firefox is operated by the Mozilla Foundation, and thunderbird by its subsidiary, MZLA Technologies Corp. This subsidiary also took over K-9 a while ago iirc.
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Zen had its latest release 5 days ago, and arc 4 days ago, so I have no idea what they're talking about.
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No, using Google makes Google money. That's why they pay mozilla to be the default.
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Arc. They are only continuing security updates and necessary maintenance. No more feature work, no more bug fixes.
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Arc. The browser company is continuing security updates, but has otherwise stopped all development
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Probably easier to go into the settings and untick a box to disable any telemetry.
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The issue is that Mozilla is actively hiding these settings. There's one (I forgot which one) that you can't find by searching for the title in the FF settings, you have to scroll to it yourself.
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maybe with anti-detection browser, there are with free-bee version, dont know if that will help . which basically lets you use proxies as well, and spoofs your fingerprinting. people who made of accts, or advertise on reddit uses these to evade reddit ban(until reddit made it harder to do so currently)
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google is probably thier number one customer for the data.
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reddit does the same thing to, to identify ban evaders, except reddit turned it up a notch in doing this. i think only anti-detect browsers can alleviate that
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vague to be exact, keeping it vague, so its up for interpretation on thier part, and they can use the vagueness as an excuse.
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And they're not going to pay millions to be the default for a browser that no one uses.
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Surprise Mechanics
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Even if Firefox is selling your data, its still 10x better than chrome since they allow uBlock Origin. Fuck chrome and fuck ads
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Fennec is maintained by Mozilla lol
