Mozilla has just deleted the following:
“Does Firefox sell your personal data?”
“Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "
Source: Lundke journal.
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. 😂