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by kevincox 760 days ago
I don't know why they didn't say it in this article, but in https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/126.0/releasenotes/ they said:

> This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove IP addresses as potentially identifying metadata. No profiling will be performed, and no data will be shared with third parties.

So it seems they aren't selling it directly. But I wouldn't be surprised if aggregated numbers could be used for sales deals. (Hi Bing, we have 137M "travel" searches a month, I'm sure that you could put some big juicy ads next to those if you purchase the default search engine status)

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Good catch