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They could have done this on literally any date and your question would apply. Usually the answer is something really mundane. They did a privacy policy review

They could have done this on literally any date and your question would apply. Usually the answer is something really mundane. They did a privacy policy review and realized a couple of their core fewtures break the policy. Or someone new joined the team who had an interest in their privacy policy and realized it contradicts. There could be a thousand mundane reasons for why now.

amiga386 2y ago
Or it could be that they announced an entirely new leadership team last week: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growt... And their "aquisition" of an adtech company last year, and their rollout of its data collection into the browser: https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-ppa-ad/ https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-ppa-ad/ And the US DoJ ruling last year that Google had an illegal monopoly on web search, and one of the mooted remedies was to bar Google paying to be the default search engine in other browsers... and about 90% of Mozilla's income is Google paying to be the default search engine. But sure, "why now", maybe someone reported a typo or something.
- account42 2y ago
  Not to mention their new "AI" integration which they likely want to expand to include all interactions with the browser.
themaninthedark 2y ago
And while they were doing this privacy policy review they also just happened to delete their promise not to sell your data? >Mozilla has just deleted the following: “Does Firefox sell your personal data?” “Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. " https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096 Yeah, could be a mundane reason for that too.... Edit add: My sibling list some other things that just so happened to be going on...
jackvalentine 2y ago
Yes, if this happened two years ago or next week my question applies. Mozilla needs to answer it and your “I’m above it all” snark needs to disappear.

amiga386 2y ago

Or it could be that they announced an entirely new leadership team last week: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growt... And their "aquisition" of an adtech company last year, and their rollout of its data collection into the browser: https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-ppa-ad/ https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-ppa-ad/ And the US DoJ ruling last year that Google had an illegal monopoly on web search, and one of the mooted remedies was to bar Google paying to be the default search engine in other browsers... and about 90% of Mozilla's income is Google paying to be the default search engine. But sure, "why now", maybe someone reported a typo or something.

account42 2y ago
Not to mention their new "AI" integration which they likely want to expand to include all interactions with the browser.

themaninthedark 2y ago

And while they were doing this privacy policy review they also just happened to delete their promise not to sell your data? >Mozilla has just deleted the following: “Does Firefox sell your personal data?” “Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. " https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096 Yeah, could be a mundane reason for that too.... Edit add: My sibling list some other things that just so happened to be going on...

jackvalentine 2y ago

Yes, if this happened two years ago or next week my question applies. Mozilla needs to answer it and your “I’m above it all” snark needs to disappear.