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.

  • Scoopta
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    4 days ago

    My assumption has always been that Google pays Mozilla for 2 things.

    1. to have them use Google as the default search engine, with this Mozilla doesn’t even have to send them your data because you as the user are effectively giving it straight to Google
    2. to keep Mozilla afloat so the US DOJ doesn’t claim they’re a monopoly because Firefox exists. Ofc that’s now happened anyway so we’ll see what happens.

    I don’t believe Mozilla ever sold user information to Google but I of course could be wrong about that. I don’t have a definitive answer.