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This leaves out the important part, nothing has actually changed. This is entirely a rewording for what they're currently doing and have been doing for years.

If it's such an outrage worthy subject why did no one explode about this when they added the sponsored links years ago?

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> why did no one explode about this when they added the sponsored links years ago?

There was a lot of discussion and consternation about this as well.

The nothing has actually changed cannot be known. There is no transparency here. This is just what you think based off of their weirdly worded statements. Many people were outraged over the sponsored links here on this very site.

We can tell that nothing materially has changed because people are linking git diffs of the FAQ and no one is linking to any changes in the source code, which is equally as available.

From that perspective it's super transparent, if you bother to look.

They released the source code for their server infrastructure where the data they collect is sent so we can verify that? Oh let me check... nope. If only they didnt collect the data there would be no trust issues.

You appear to be going off the rails -- this entire debacle is about Firefox, which runs locally on your machine, you can see if they're collecting different data (they aren't) or sending it somewhere else (they aren't).

There's no evidence they're doing anything with any data and there never was. All of this outrage is purely centered on a ToS update which they've since refactored in response.

Sir, they are 100% taking data from your machine and sending it else where. There are literally forks of the browser made solely to prevent it. You are either incapable of having a discussion in good faith or actively have your fingers in your ears. You continue to post untruths throughout this comment section.

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