Well, I don’t think we’re going to convince each other. I don’t really find hairsplitting about what “sell” means to be convincing though. That’s the sort of defense you use when you don’t have a better one.
Nor do I find “But they already did the bad thing, you should’ve complained then” convincing (fyi people did complain). Also, that’s clearly forming the trend that I’m talking about. This is not one small mistake, it’s part of a clear, multi-year trend.
Pocket is owned by Mozilla.
FYI the link is about Anonym. The beef isn’t that Mozilla is selling data to them (because they own them now), it’s that Mozilla’s incentives no longer align with users’, exactly because they own an advertising business now. It’s corrosive and inevitably enshittifying.
Using Word as an example isn’t really convincing either. Of course Microsoft is going to throw in every shitty thing they can, because they’re Microsoft. That’s what they do. It shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath as or used as a justification for anything Mozilla does. But also, using a word processor shouldn’t require that in the TOS.
please provide one piece of proof that they’re selling your data.
“Mozilla’s partners receive de-identified information about interactions with the suggestions they’ve served.” I don’t really care if they’re “selling” it or “giving it away”. Straight from the horse’s mouth, they’re doing things with my data I don’t like. Saying “partners” only means “Pocket” which means “Mozilla” isn’t convincing either, because there’s no reason that can’t change on a whim.
If they just wanted to sell your data they would do that.
No, they’d instantly tank. Enshittifying must be done carefully for them, they need to slowly boil their frogs. The trend is clear, though.
I’ve read over how the token aggregation works for their deanonymization and it’s perfectly privacy preserving
I’ve also read over the DES specification and it’s perfectly secure. Except I’m not a cryptographer and my “verification” isn’t worth anything. Even if it’s perfect now, they will poke holes in that to maximize profit over time, because that’s what they’re incentivized to do now. Mozilla should fire anyone that thought advertising was a good business model, and align themselves with users’ interests.
