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Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

Am I the only one here who’s pretty much okay with this? I do wish they’d clarify exactly what they mean by “Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about ‘selling data’),” but having my anonymized data sold so that Mozilla can continue to operate (combined with Firefox being the best browser I’ve used in terms of both performance and flexibility - ability to install add-ons from sources outside of the Mozilla store, for example) - seems like a worthy tradeoff to me.

They also have an option to opt-out of data collection, which I do wish was opt-in instead, but with the way every other mainstream browser operates I’m just happy the option is there at all. Let me know if there’s something I’m missing here though.

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sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The problem I have with this is that “anonymized” data in the past has often been trivial to de-anonymize. And if they can remove some promises now, they’re going to keep going in that direction. Just like Microsoft telemetry used to be less but is getting worse and worse.

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- parmesan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Do you have any sources about anonymized data being easy to de-anonymize? I’ve been hearing a lot of conflicting stuff regarding the policy change so I wanna make sure the information I’m getting is accurate. But yeah if Firefox implements more anti consumer policies like this I will probably be jumping ship.
  
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  - sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There is a Wikipedia article about what I mean. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification
    
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    parmesan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Thanks I’ll read up on it :)
    
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AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
They could make it more specific. Instead they just removed it.

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- parmesan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m not trying to unilaterally defend the decision, it’s just not going to make me personally switch browsers. From what I’m hearing a lot of the viable alternatives are forks of Firefox anyway.
  
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