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Firefox "never has and never will" sell your personal data was removed.
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e
It was moved here, but there is no never will: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq
It seems like every company on the web is buying and selling my data. You’re probably no different.
Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you, and we don’t buy data about you.
Search for
firefox-tou
.The presence of that now magically removes mentions of privacy and not selling user-data in multiple places.
Difference here is
Unlike other companies, we don’t sell access to your data.
Pivoting from privacy to security in the tos.
As you mentioned they will apparently sell your data under tos.
Where does the tos apply and where the mpl now?
They would have removed all those mentions of privacy entirely if the mpl had no use anymore, wouldn't they?