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[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can someone cue (or is it queue? que?) me in on what all the fuzz is this time around? I feel like I hear a pitchfork mob at least once a year without actually noticing anything different.

Just for the record: I'm not claiming that there's much ado about nothing, merely that I am severely out of the loop as usual.

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 49 points 1 month ago

Firefox is the biggest non-chromium browser competitor, and was an advocate of privacy and not selling user data

But they recently did a 180, started selling user data, and are now shoving FF full of AI bloatware nobody wants

So the userbase is feeling very betrayed

[-] morto@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago

Wait, selling user data? What did I miss?

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://youtu.be/4litc5DxoHQ

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

TL;DR Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data”), and we don’t buy data about you. We changed our language because some jurisdictions define “sell” more broadly than most people would usually understand that word. Firefox has built-in privacy and security features, plus options that let you fine-tune your data settings.

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847R59

Removing "no we will never sell your data" from your Q/A page is not a good look

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Their argument is “we’re not selling your data, we’re selling our data about you.”

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

AFAIK an exaggeration. They are promoting "privacy respecting ad metrics".

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 19 points 1 month ago

It's not an exaggeration

They are selling user data for profit. It's anonymized sure, but it's still selling user data

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Oh. So they are. Thanks.

[-] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Nothing in that post proofs that they sell any user data?

[-] BeN9o@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

The new CEO has said he wants to turn Firefox into a "modern day AI browser"

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 month ago

He also said he doesn’t want to but they could make $150m/year by blocking ad blockers.

I get that he said he doesn’t want to, but that really should have been a non starter train of thought.

[-] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Clue me in" is the idiom. ~~Que~~ Cue is closer than queue, if you were an actor and needed a hint on where to go next.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

A cue is a marker point, usually for media production. It can be used in several contexts.

Queue would be a line, more or less.

I'm being reductive, of course. Just trying to help people who are too lazy to Google or look at a dictionary.

[-] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Queue is also the playing stick used in billiards Edit: Queue

[-] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 1 month ago

In French, yes. In English, it's a pool cue.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They should probably speak French if they're going to use the French term.

[-] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

It probably originates from French

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

it's "clue" me in on. But "cue" does make sense, from an "eggcorn" perspective. It's not the phrase, but it makes sense.

[-] valek879@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

It's also "fuss" not "fuzz" but like no biggie, most people can pick up meanings from context clues.

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