The whole article’s a great read, but here’s a fun excerpt=
To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included
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!
Thank you!