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It may be helpful to understand how Mozilla's operations are structured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_
by kevingadd 8y ago
It may be helpful to understand how Mozilla's operations are structured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation
However, anything's possible with the way businessmen tend to bend the rules to make money, so it's certainly within the realm of possibility that within 10 years the Foundation will sell the Corporation to Amazon-Comcast-Warner LLC and then they'll monetize the data.
- fixermark 8y agoPrecisely. If one is concerned about not giving data like this to Google, MS, et. al. for privacy reasons, I wouldn't trust Mozilla's guarantees without actual contractual language declaring the lifetime of the data and under what circumstances the data will be destroyed (including but not limited to "company is purchased by another company").
- jopsen 8y ago> I wouldn't trust Mozilla's guarantees without actual contractual language... Then go read the fine print: https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/privacy/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/... But more importantly understand that this probably isn't for everybody. I think it's a fair guess to say they just want a small population, not something in the millions.