Posted on 03/04/2025 10:05:29 AM PST by martin_fierro
sell my data
i regularly shop for bikinis and lingerie
they do a great job selecting ads for me
“with the content you input in Firefox.”
Passwords? Tax information?
Their selling point was privacy. They’ve now made a deal with the Devil (Google).
BTTT
For some reason for me anyway, Firefox is slow
I kicked Firefox to the curb a decade ago when Mozilla kicked CEO Brendan Eich to the curb for making a donation to a group in favor of making marriage only a think between one man and one woman. A radical idea, I know.
/think/thing/
Same here. It wasn’t quite as painful a change as I was anticipating, either. Brave rocks.
Yes, Brave is my primary browser on my desktop as well, since then.
i regularly shop for bikinis and lingerie
they do a great job selecting ads for me
Joshua C regularly buying lingerie. You didn't happen to be in charge of nuclear waste for the Biden regime, did you? There's other web sites for 'oversharing' such things.
I can see Mozilla grouping together all users whose passwords it discovers very weak -- like "12345" or "abcde" -- anonymizing that group, and selling that group to, say, a password manager software company for targeted ads in the Firefox browser, all without identifying any particular user.Tax information?
Same idea as above: Mozilla identifies users with > $10K in IRS debt, anonymizing that group, and selling that group to a tax reduction negotiation company, all without identifying any particular user. The tax reduction negotiation company's targeted ads then appear in the Firefox browser
I know they’re probably not taking passwords or tax info, but the wording’s scary. -I mean, unless they’re keylogging you, how would they know what you’re inputting into the browser.
Thanks to martin_fierro for the ping!
Man, has it already been a decade?!
Thanks again. I switched to Brave last night.
Resource hogs-— Chrome is worst - then Brave - Edge is the least....
Though you can add the —tiny suspender — extension to Brave and Chrome to cut down on the resource hogging. Edge manages this by itself.
Ackchyaully, Mozilla's deal with the Devil Google is under legal scrutiny and suspended, such that Mozilla lost 80% of its revenue that it would otherwise have had from that deal -- which is why they're now looking for alternate revenue streams, such as these modified privacy practices.
These policies aren't as absolute as they once were, but they do still provide a measure of anonymity and are fairly common anymore in online provider contracts.
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