Good evening:
And it is that the section where it boasted of not selling your information as a user, unlike its competition, is removed.
In the past, this web browser based on an open license, publicly pledged not to share user data with third parties. But now with the update, Mozilla removed a rather important sentence, which specifically stated that: “Unlike other companies, we don’t sell access to your data”.
Firefox defends itself that the confusion is linked to the “licensing language”, where it states that they need a license “to enable some of the core features of Firefox”.
Additionally, a section of their “Firefox FAQ” that included a promise to never sell user data was completely removed. Section available if using tools such as Wayback Machine to view information on the web before it was updated.
Most interesting of all, is the imperative need to have the right over all your users’ entries in Firefox. And evidently, AI can be one of the main businesses. And Mozilla needs money. It should be remembered that Google would not pay them again for using their search engine as the default in their browser. And fund them.
These changes and the fact that they are giving money to the Linux foundation to promote and use Chromium…
Plus if you have those things in a contract (so to speak) and you remove it… But why remove it?, other than to protect yourself from something.
And I don’t want to think that they want to do like Google and prevent us from using Ublock Origin. So that we have to see advertising, trackers, not be able to block connections, or remove advertising or unnecessary things from web pages. It’s scary…
All navigators call home with the supposed telemetry. To improve performance, searches, and the browser itself. So removing that part, just to further improve the browser (According to them), doesn’t seem to me…
As they say here: if the river sounds is because it carries water.
A hug
