{"id":145167,"date":"2025-03-19T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/?p=145167"},"modified":"2025-03-19T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T04:02:12","slug":"firefox-removes-promise-not-to-sell-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/firefox-removes-promise-not-to-sell-personal-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Removes Promise Not To Sell Personal Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"daves-1839537010\" class=\"daves-single-post-before-content daves-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\r\n<p>Mozilla, the parent company of Firefox, just changed its Firefox FAQ. The old Firefox FAQ included a <strong>promise<\/strong> that Mozilla would never sell a user\u2019s personal data. But Mozilla removed that promise in its new FAQ.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Old FAQ<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>If we go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet Archive Wayback Machine<\/a> and enter the URL for the Firefox FAQ and select a January date, we can pull up an archived version of the Firefox FAQ.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mozilla_Wayback.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-145168 size-large\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mozilla_Wayback-640x252.jpg\" alt=\"mozilla-wayback\" width=\"640\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mozilla_Wayback-640x252.jpg 640w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mozilla_Wayback-350x138.jpg 350w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mozilla_Wayback-150x59.jpg 150w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mozilla_Wayback-768x302.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mozilla_Wayback-1536x605.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mozilla_Wayback-1320x520.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mozilla_Wayback.jpg 2002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Looking at it we see that it has the following promise:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p><strong>Does Firefox sell your personal data?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy.\u00a0<strong>That\u2019s a promise.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Not only does Mozilla say that it won\u2019t sell your personal data, but it also says it never will, Mozilla even had a link with the words \u201c<strong>That\u2019s a promise<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p><div id=\"daves-2117502602\" class=\"daves-single-post-in-content daves-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Promise Didn\u2019t Last<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>That promise didn\u2019t last! Mozilla removed that phrase from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current Firefox FAQ<\/a>. In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/privacy\/faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Privacy FAQ<\/a>, it added this phrase:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p>Mozilla doesn\u2019t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about \u201cselling data\u201c), and we don\u2019t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of \u201csale of data\u201c is extremely broad in some places, we\u2019ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Mozilla says it doesn\u2019t sell your personal data, but if you use the &#8220;LEGAL&#8221; definition of selling, they do sell your personal data. Mozilla puts \u201ca lot of work\u201d into making sure the personal data it sells is anonymized (which third\u00a0parties have ways to de-anonymize).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Bottom Line<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Mozilla just removed a promise that they will not sell your personal Firefox data. Technically, Mozilla is selling your personal data but they are anonymizing it in certain ways. As users, we now need to trust the third-party buyers of the data that they will not de-anonymize it. Do you use Firefox? What do you think about Mozilla\u2019s removal of their promise? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8212;<\/p><div id=\"daves-2066852707\" class=\"daves-single-post-in-content-2 daves-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"daves-1708458628\" class=\"daves-after-content daves-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"3225321574\" \ndata-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla, the parent company of Firefox, just changed its Firefox FAQ. The old Firefox FAQ included a promise that Mozilla would never sell a user\u2019s personal data. But Mozilla removed that promise in its new FAQ. The Old FAQ If we go to the Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4183,"featured_media":62853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,62,128,13],"tags":[855],"class_list":["post-145167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-browser","category-news","category-privacy-2","category-security","tag-personal-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}