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I read the article but still don't understand what this means:
I've seen corporate mission statements that were clearer.
I read it as "you type a URL in the address bar, we'll take you there. You want to search for something using the search bar? We got you, we'll forward your search to the search engine of your choice. All free of charge."
It's just worded in such generic legal wording it makes you gag. But them pointing it out so explicitly just makes me more suspicious lol. I think it's fine for now, just another wall of text to keep an eye on for any future modifications.
A more factual and literal reading:
"If we deem anything as "necessary to operate Firefox", such as selling your data, then you automatically grants us all rights to do that".
I think there's a difference between "operate Firefox" and "continue to develop Firefox".
because while operating firefox costs no money (the software runs on my hardware), developing firefox does cost money (mozilla has to pay employees, ...). so, selling your data might be necessary to make mozilla money sothat they can pay their employees, but it's not necessary for "operate Firefox".
There is not, at any point, a real necessity to sell your clients so that you can pay your employees, or viceversa.
Pitting the workers against the consumers is the strategy of oligarchy bourgeois.
"help you .... experience ..... content" = Ads
That's the more vicious part of it. How do we know what this experience they want to serve us is. A more pessimistic read could be they sell everything we type to ad companies and claim targeted ads are totally enhancing our experience.