I haven’t kept up with all the news about this, so is there a definitive yes or no answer that Mozilla sells or even shares user information with partners such as Google? Google is paying Mozilla for something.
I haven’t kept up with all the news about this, so is there a definitive yes or no answer that Mozilla sells or even shares user information with partners such as Google? Google is paying Mozilla for something.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/
If you use Google as your default search engine and you search, that obviously lands with Google. If you have type-suggestions enabled, typing input is sent to Google. (Also obvious, to me at least.)
Turn off sponsored suggestions and locations you put in to search are not shared with sponsors/partners.
Don’t opt in to enhanced search experience and they won’t share that with partners.
Opt out of personalized advertising.
If you set up to use an AI Chatbot third party service, what you type will be sent to them (obviously). Not to Mozilla either way.
Don’t opt in to Review Checker and they won’t share even in OHTTP form.
From the support article:
Don’t approve sharing the data and it won’t be shared. (This is kinda outside of Firefox the software anyway. It’s about them measuring how users arrive at installing Firefox and their campaigns regarding that.)
If you install Firefox and disable sponsored content and choose a non-Google search engine, nothing is shared with Google or other partners outside of what you select and explicitly consent to/set up.
The relevant settings are under Settings -> Home (Sponsored shortcuts), Search, and Privacy & Security
thx for summarising all of this! I’ve recently installed librewolf and it’s been surprisingly painless, everything was in place already