Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, says its new terms of service do not mean it will now sell user data. Changes to the privacy policy have caused concern among users.
Last week, Mozilla removed several sentences from its terms of use, including one that promised Firefox would never buy or sell users’ personal data. Mozilla said the conviction had to be changed for legal reasons.
The change, however, caused considerable unrest among Firefox users. One of Chrome’s smaller competitors, the browser is often seen as an alternative to Google’s browser, a company that makes a lot of money from internet advertising. In that sense, Firefox has always focused heavily on privacy.
After complaints last week, Mozilla provided more explanations in its blog. According to the organization, the company needs a license for specific data to enable Firefox’s basic functionality.
Without that license, no data entered into Firefox could be used. Mozilla still says, ‘It does not give us ownership of your data or the right to use that data for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice.’
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