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

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by s38b35M5@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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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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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

said Ajit Varma, veep of Firefox Product

Pack up your shit, and get the FUCK out. You're a fucking disgrace.

[–] Technotica@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Soo... where do we go now? What open source alternative exists that is on the side of its users?

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Just keep using Firefox. Nothing in the code has changed, and if it does you can switch to forks. You all are evangelizing about how important FOSS is to prevent this exact scenario and yet you keep switching browsers for no need at all.

Note: I love Foss, I just think this is an overreaction

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

Soon the only private option left will be to curl the website, read the html and picture it in my head.

[–] Avenging5@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Now that Mozilla's fucked. What's the next option that's not Chromium?

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

Mozilla is sliding down a slippery slope to enshitification; but they're still near the top of that slide. The bad stuff hasn't actually come yet. So Firefox is still top-tier in the short term.
In the medium term, we can look towards a fork such as Librewolf or Waterfox.
And in the long term, we'll probably turn to a new project using Ladybird or Servo.