> Your complaint about "other valuable consideration" is just a complaint that the law isn't crippled by stupid loopholes.
That's not the law. The search engine partner using those logs is probably valuable consideration and hence a sale. Mozilla doesn't even need to keep the data; just an api passthrough will qualify.
> The search engine partner using those logs is probably valuable consideration and hence a sale.
It's not a sale when the search engine doesn't get those logs from Mozilla. When a user sends a search query to Google using a Mozilla browser, it's Google's privacy policy that applies, not Mozilla's.
> Mozilla doesn't even need to keep the data; just an api passthrough will qualify.
There is no API passthrough in this scenario. Search queries go to the search engine directly without being relayed through Mozilla servers. Anything that does hit Mozilla's servers is entirely optional and unrelated to the purpose of satisfying the user's request for search results.
You don't need to speculate about how this could all be due to innocent ordinary operation of a web browser when Mozilla has already disclosed that they're voluntarily tracking users in ways that are not necessary for the operation of a web browser.
That's not the law. The search engine partner using those logs is probably valuable consideration and hence a sale. Mozilla doesn't even need to keep the data; just an api passthrough will qualify.