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Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by s38b35M5 to c/privacy

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The answer to "what is Firefox?" on Mozilla's FAQ page about its browser used to read:

The Firefox Browser is the only major browser backed by a not-for-profit that doesn’t sell your personal data to advertisers while helping you protect your personal information.

Now it just says:

The Firefox Browser, the only major browser backed by a not-for-profit, helps you protect your personal information.

In other words, Mozilla is no longer willing to commit to not selling your personal data to advertisers.

A related change was also highlighted by mozilla.org commenter jkaelin, who linked direct to the source code for that FAQ page. To answer the question, "is Firefox free?" Moz used to say:

Yep! The Firefox Browser is free. Super free, actually. No hidden costs or anything. You don’t pay anything to use it, and we don’t sell your personal data.

Now it simply reads:

Yep! The Firefox Browser is free. Super free, actually. No hidden costs or anything. You don’t pay anything to use it.

Again, a pledge to not sell people's data has disappeared. Varma insisted this is the result of the fluid definition of “sell” in the context of data sharing and privacy.

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[–] grue 122 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I'm running Linux and neither Waterfox or LibreWolf are present in repository of one of the most popular distros. Come on?!

[–] s38b35M5 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If you are using a debian flavor, you can likely add extrepo that searches a central repo of repositories and can add them as needed.

sudo apt update && sudo apt install extrepo -y

sudo extrepo enable librewolf

sudo apt update && sudo apt install librewolf -y

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

Why always this Terminal bullshit? Why can't I just find it and click Install like a normal user and not like a fucking caveman?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

put it innare

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

huh? what linux distribution are you even using? also librewolf is available in the flathub repository

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago

I'd be more worried about how long that flag is going to work. And how long is it going to take us to realize the flag isn't working.