Today, when I navigated to amazon.com on Firefox for Android, I received a jarring message that I could “try” a new service, Fakespot, on the app.
Fakespot is littered with privacy issues.
Among other things, FakeSpot/Mozilla was forced to admit:
“We sell and share your personal information”
Fakespot’s privacy policy allows them to collect and sell:
- Your email address
- Your IP address
- Account IDs
- A list of things you purchased and considered purchasing
- Your precise location (which will be sent to advertising partners)
- Data about you publicly available on the web
- Your curated profile (which will also be sent to advertising providers)
Right before Mozilla acquired them, Fakespot updated their privacy policy to allow transfer of private data to any company that acquired them. (Previous Privacy Policy here. Search “merge” in both.)
People donate to Mozilla because they believe in the company’s stated goals. Why were the donations put into an acquisition of a company with this kind of privacy policy? And why has Mozilla focused on bundling it as bloat into their browser? Now that Brave is in hot water for becoming bloated, Mozilla should buck the trend, not follow it.
I looked at fakespot after their LLM chat announcement and was sad that all of the install buttons were browser extensions. It seems like it mainly redirects the user to the site with the URL filled in. This would be trivial with a bookmarklet. Plus the bookmarklet isn’t slowing down your browser or stealing your private info when it isn’t being used.
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Right but that’s the feature and you’re the product