Comment by hajile | Hacker News Reader

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In what countries is this FAQ (removed in their PR) not seen as a legally-binding contract with all current Firefox users? It seems like a very clear contractual obligation in the US.

            {
                "@type": "Question",
                "name": "Does Firefox sell your personal data?", 1
                "acceptedAnswer": {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "text": "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. " 9+
                }
            },

Contracts in the US require consideration. A promise made in exchange for nothing is not a contract because there's no consideration.

That contract is made in exchange for your willingness to use their product and your willingness to use Mozilla is what gets them big contracts from companies like Google.

I don’t think there is a contract here in most parts of the world. But maybe there’s an argument to be made for promissory estoppel e.g. by a company who moved from IE to Firefox based on these promises and spent $x moving to Firefox and now have to spend $x moving to something else in response to new information?

In reality there’ll probably be nothing from this, though I’d love to see companies get punished for walking back statements like these.

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