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Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included team digs into privacy issues in "Romantic AI Chatbots". Spooky stuff
(foundation.mozilla.org)
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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It's rather ironic Mozilla has a team doing valuable research on the dangers of AI corporations taking your data, compiling it into profiles, and selling those profiles to advertisers (90% of them)....
...While Mozilla itself purchased a subsidiary that offers AI-enhanced shopping which takes people's data, compiles it into personal profiles, and sells those profiles to advertisers.
Mozilla's Privacy Not Included needs to do a deep dive on Mozilla's Fakespot.
I assume they're going to use the Fakespot tech in a privacy respecting way, which is why it's taking so long to add the Fakespot features
Mozilla recently updated the Fakespot privacy policy, and never removed the data sale clause.
Fakespot code is already been injected into Firefox, too. It is currently fully functional, although it only works on the three largest shopping websites on the United States.
At some point, you have to figure the multimillion dollar corporation actually knows what they're doing... Right?
Can you give me a source for the privacy policy being updated? I'm curious.
Yeah, I probably should have linked to it already.
https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy
"Last Updated: January 30, 2024"
Their privacy policy doesn't seem to state that they sell your data? Only that they use it for anonymous statistics and advertising directly to you (ie. Emails). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
And their privacy policy seems more specific than the last time I read it, right when they were acquired.
Do a search on the page for "Category of Third Parties to Whom Personal Information is Sold and/or Shared". The following are sold to advertising partners:
Ah shit, you're right, my bad.
Damn, hadn't realized Mozilla was doing ad profiling! 😓
Anybody know of a way to disable that somehow, mobile\desktop? If its not a thing I think I might be jumping ship... Really hoped Firefox had their shit together!
Go to
about:config
, search "shopping2023" and start switching to falseThey're not, Fakespot, a service it'll prompt you to enable, may do that once it's interested
Thank you!