> The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is broad and evolving. As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”
How is the CCPA stupidly-worded when that's what a layman would think "selling data" means?
I do wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments about the WHATWG though, as someone who contributed to Pale Moon's development. That web browser cartel should be investigated by the US government for anti-competitive practices as they did with Google and Microsoft.