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When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

"Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data“), and we don’t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data“ is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP)."

I happily switched to Zen on my desktop a while ago. Time to find a new mobile browser.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago

I've always supported Firefox and ignored all the telemetry changes issues, after all you can just disable them in about:config, but after this I think I'll switch to a fork. I installed zen browser, the only thing I want is syncing and extensions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Mozilla and Firefox have been going downhill for quite some time now. I'm pretty surprised people are shocked by this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, I'm in no way surprised by this, but still somehow deeply disappointed.

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