I don’t understand how they are supposed to “sell your data” if you just never use a Mozilla account and uncheck all the telemetry. Its not like they can secretly steal your data, since its Open Source.

It seems to me like just more FUD that Google is spreading to undermine our trust in free software.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    4 hours ago

    The privacy centric way for Mozilla to have address this would have been to:

    • acknowledge laws in certain countries have changed
    • Due to those new laws, the definition of “sell” has changed and Firefox may no longer be in compliance with their desire to keep your data private
    • Commit their desire to take the necessary steps to keep new versions of Firefox in line with their original vision
    • update the “we will not sell” definition to within the jurisdiction of the United States, or indicate that the definition of sell may be different in different jurisdictions
    • make the necessary extensions to jurisdictions where they were “selling” user data, self reporting where necessary
    • CameronDev
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Yup, its been terribly handled. Dunno if it was driven by a panicy lawyer, but those steps would have been much better. At a minimum, that blog post should have come first.