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Mozilla adds stupid AI stuff with horrible T&C (lemdro.id)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big "yes, try it" button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool

https://queer.party/@m04/112872517189786676

So, Mozilla adds an AI review features for products you view using Firefox. Other than being very useless, it's T&C are as anti-consumer as it possibly can be. It's like mozilla saying directly "we don't care about your privacy".

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy

Internet or other electronic network activity (e.g., browsing history, search history, information regarding an individual's interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement, and online viewing activities)

Category of Third Parties to Whom Personal Information is Sold and/or Shared: Advertising partners, Service providers

Just a snippet of the privacy policy. There's other bad stuff too like location tracking. It's also all ran through Google analytics.

So much for a privacy respecting Mozilla

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

And people thought Mozilla became an ad company when they bought the other ad company. Nope. I'm tracing it back to right here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is this for sure built-in and not some extension? I don't have it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

its in beta

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hope that Ladybirdy gets something good happening. I simply having a another browser in this space would give Mozilla a good sanity check for their direction and values. Otherwise they're just kind of fumbling around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

There's Verso now too, a Servo based browser.

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