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Mozilla Has Been Suspiciously Silent About Google And Manifest V3 (fosspost.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You keep posting things that agree with me. I don't think you understand that.

The only way to find a contradiction is to find new articles that trumpet their ad blocking capabilities, not old ones from years ago.

Do you understand, years ago?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, like publishing a new article every day just to prove their commitment to end-users' privacy.

Incremental updates to articles, hosted literally on home page, with details of newer privacy features is so old school.

Got it. Thanks for the clarification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also not what I said.

Mozilla started selling private data to advertising companies in 2023.

Mozilla became an advertising company in June, 2024.

Isn't it curious that they've suddenly become much less outspoken about ad blocking after 2022?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Also not what I said.

Source: 2022 Hey look, years ago. And your other page was 2018.

Mozilla started selling private data to advertising companies in 2023

(Assuming this is about Pocket) Is it too much to expect from you to know the difference between aggregated non-PII data vs PII data?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's about their FakeSpot subsidiary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It’s about their FakeSpot subsidiary.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/review-checker-review-quality#w_protect-your-privacy

Protect your privacy Firefox is committed to empowering you with information about review reliability while respecting your privacy. We use Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) for Review Checker. When Review Checker is turned on, we use information about the products you visit on Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart to analyze the reviews, but by using OHTTP we ensure Mozilla cannot link you or your device to the products you have viewed. OHTTP uses encryption and a third party intermediary server to offer a technical guarantee that this is the case: all Mozilla learns from this network request is that someone, somewhere, looked at a given product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I wasn't thinking about that one, although it is hilarious Mozilla thinks it can claim it isn't scraping private data by using a business collaborator as an intermediary.