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Mozilla adds stupid AI stuff with horrible T&C (lemdro.id)
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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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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

FakeSpot also only works on the biggest and most predatory platforms (Walmart and Amazon).

that also happen to be by far the most popular, and also where you are the mos likely to see fake reviews

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

they seem to be basically saying that they make most of their profit by selling your private data to advertisers, trend calculators etc etc

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

all the data that goes through the firefox integration is anonymised

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i am talking about fakespot

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 11 months ago

Mozilla claims the service respects your privacy because they are using OHTTP (which does NOT provide anonymity)... The marketing speak implies anonymity heavily, but doesn't say it

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] numeral_paver555@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In OP's screenshot, you are only going to agree to Mozilla's privacy policy and FakeSpot's TOS. So the FakeSpot's privacy policy is not involved.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] numeral_paver555@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

You are right. I think they should make it more clear.

In the FakeSpot privacy notice, Google Analytics, Social Media Platforms, Contact Info, and Identifiers are not collected by Firefox, among others. So it's fair to say the data collected is not linked to the user.

The browser.shopping.experience2023.ads.enabled flag is intriguing. So I took a look. It turns out that the recommendation is only based on the current page you request the review analysis.

In general, I believe that it is primarily ambiguous legal documents rather than a genuine invasion of privacy.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip -2 points 11 months ago

I am aware its not the privacy policy, i have read through the privacy policy, however the fact that the info get proxied through and anonymised on fastly's servers counts for something

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

anonymization is not a silver bullet. Data gets deanonymized all the time. It's very easy to accidentally leak useful information