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~~They removed that question from the FAQ, but it still states in multiple other sections, in the same link, that they do not sell user data~~
~~Am I reading this wrong?~~
Edit: New FAQ
I feel like it would've been really helpful if it had provided an example of something that legally counts as "selling your data", but that any sane person would not define as such.
I mean, yeah.
Although it's not difficult.
Take online hosting. Say you run a sync service - fully encrypted - and you upload to a hosting provider. Now I'm not an expert on when you pay for it, I'd intuitively assume this no longer applies but it can get messy with complementary services. Say you rent an AWS system and you get a file upload space as an "extra".
Anyhow, you just exchanged non-anonymized user data (that it's encrypted is irrelevant because you knew when uploading what it is it, so it was intentifyable and in fact that's how you even knew what to upload and what not to) for a service (hosting) that can be constructed as payment for the data.
Sounds absurd? It is. That's why lawyers cost so much money. 😂
I am so fucking tired of PR speak. This is removed now so that they can sell your data later. That and the ToS change is the canary in the coalmine.
"We akchually don't sell your data because it isn't the legal definition everywhere". Fuck you
Interesting, did you go check the merge request? Because I quote:
Yes, that's from post-change.
Have you looked through the proposed PR linked in this post?
It doesn't matter that Mozilla has backtracked after the backlash. It matters that they've shown us where they want to go, and its not good. They will try to push the change again until it works.
Yeah I quote from that PR, in fact. That's where I got that from.
Then you are obtuse on purpose because the PR removed the part where they explicitly say they won't sell your data.
Marked as deprecated and will be removed outright not to be replaced.
Oh, thanks.