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==Incidents== ===Removing "We don't sell your data" promise=== In February 2025, Mozilla started to delete references to their "We don't sell your data" promise from the source code, as first reported by [https://www.haiku-os.org/ Haiku operating system] developer ''waddlesplash'' on the forum thread for their Firefox/Iceweasel port.<ref>https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/iceweasel-telemetry-acceptible-for-firefox-trademarks/16106/51</ref><ref>https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e</ref> They also switched the wording from "The best privacy" to "Always protected". ===Introducing TOS for Firefox (2025)=== {{Main|Mozilla introduces TOS to Firefox}} {{Important| This situation is ongoing so the full impact to consumers has yet to be determined}}In February 2025 Mozilla introduced terms of use (TOS) for the Firefox browser for the first time as well as an updated privacy policy. The new privacy policy has caused concern among the browser's user revolving around the way the section that describes the rights Mozilla has over their data is phrased. ===Privacy-preserving attribution=== '''Privacy-preserving attribution (PPA)''' is an experimental feature introduced in Firefox version 128, designed to help advertising sites measure the performance of their ads while maintaining user privacy. It is marketed as an alternative method for performing attribution without relying on online tracking of users' browsing activity, which is incompatible with privacy. The functionality is explained on the Mozilla support page as follows:<ref name=":0">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution#w_how-can-i-disable-ppa</ref><blockquote> #Websites that show you ads can ask Firefox to remember these ads. When this happens, Firefox stores an “impression” which contains a little bit of information about the ad, including a destination website. #If you visit the destination website and do something that the website considers to be important enough to count (a “conversion”), that website can ask Firefox to generate a report. The destination website specifies what ads it is interested in. #Firefox creates a report based on what the website asks, but does not give the result to the website. Instead, Firefox encrypts the report and anonymously submits it using the Distributed Aggregation Protocol (DAP) to an “aggregation service”. #Your results are combined with many similar reports by the aggregation service. The destination website periodically receives a summary of the reports. The summary includes noise that provides differential privacy. </blockquote>Browsing activity information is not sent to anyone, not even Mozilla. However, users with PPA enable must rely solely on the company to honor principle number 4 in its Manifesto.<ref name=":0" /><blockquote>PPA does not involve sending information about your browsing activities to anyone. This includes Mozilla and our DAP partner (ISRG). Advertisers only receive aggregate information that answers basic questions about the effectiveness of their advertising.</blockquote>This feature does not allow users to make an informed decision and choose whether to opt-in or not, as it is enabled by default and requires opting out.<ref>https://cybernews.com/privacy/firefox-data-collection-feature-sparks-backlash/</ref> This goes against principle number 8 of the Manifesto. ===Anonym acquisition=== In June 2024, Mozilla becomes an advertiser by acquiring [https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/ Anonym] going against their mission of being a proponent of privacy. ===Mr Robot promotional web extension=== In December 2017 Mozilla, in collaboration with the Mr Robot team, created and included by default a web extension in [https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Firefox firefox] named "looking glass",<ref name=":1">Mozilla addressing the Looking glass incident [https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-gla] [https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ ss/]</ref> while being disabled by default many users where confused and worried<ref>Firefox's users worried about the looking glass extension https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/</ref> to discover a unknown extension installed in their browser with a cryptic description "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS." which was later expanded to include references to Mozilla's collaboration.<ref>Locking glass extension description changed https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c</ref> The extension when activated execute code on all websites visited by the user, searching for all words matching a list, every words matched were wrap into HTML span tags,<ref>looking glass extension injecting HTML https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js#L27</ref> tooltips were injected to be display when the user over these words, CSS code was injected to make the words appears upside down and the tooltips work.<ref>Looking glass extension injecting CSS https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/background.js#L78</ref> Also three specific website did have their header changed to have a value "x-1057" injected. While the extension could in rare occasion break some website with the HTML and CSS injection, it did not do anything malicious or dangerous, the extension was not collecting any personal information at all which Mozilla qualified a mistake in their response addressing the issue.<ref name=":1" /> <blockquote>'''A SHIELD study must be designed to answer a specific question.''' We evaluated Looking Glass based on whether or not it upheld user privacy. Since it did not collect any data, we felt that it was safe. In retrospect, not capturing data was a strong indicator that this was not a good SHIELD study candidate, so we’re making sure we’re going to specifically evaluate future studies based on this criteria to ensure that we don’t repeat our mistake.</blockquote>
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