Did Mozilla just sell all Firefox users' location data to AccuWeather without our consent?
This just showed up on my home page after an update. I wasn't asked and never gave any sort of consent.
Are you implying Mozilla paid AccuWeather to have placement on it's browser? It's always the other way around, think about Google paying to be the default search engine on Safari. If anything, I have to think Mozilla was paid to incorporate AccuWeather and not the other way around.
They also payed to be the default on Firefox ._.
Are you implying Mozilla paid AccuWeather to have placement on it’s browser?
No, AccuWeather paid Mozilla. Mozilla sold the data to AccuWeather. Mozilla made money.
Have you got a source that shows that data of FF users actually went to AccuWeather or is this purely speculation?
Why would Mozilla pay AccuWeather in user data? This would cut into their revenue and be horrendous press. Doing so makes no sense, legit entirely illogical. AccuWeather paid to get placement on the new tabs page. But, if you're this worried about it and haven't spent time in about:config to prevent fingerprinting, tracking, and location data collection, start there for sure. Either way, this seems like a huge stretch and wouldn't make sense for Mozilla try and pull off.
I wouldn’t know.
I like the big search bar in the middle of my screen
The weather is sponsored?
Just use Librewolf + Mullvad with extensions. Problem solved
It's not on my browser.
It might be regional.
This is an Intresting one. I'm curious what the deal was.
Assuming accuweather is paying Firefox, thats probably a good thing because Firefox definatly needs to diversify its income.
I wonder what exactly AccuWeather gets. Is only for more web traffic (which is significant) or is it something else?
That's a great question. I couldn't find anything online, presumably because it just happened.
I just updated firefox and am not seeing it anywhere, including on the new tab page before I type in a URL or something.
It might be regional.
They are probably just using your IP address to determine the location. That will show the location of your ISP, not your location. That's not much more info than any other server gets when you are connecting to it. Also does not require Mozilla to send any geolocation data.
Yeah, I hope so. Them buying an advertising company and then pulling this shit has got me feeling paranoid.