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Firefox's new FakeSpot integration: the privacy problems (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by LWD@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

What's Fakespot? A review-checking, scammer-spotting service Fakespot for Firefox."

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.)

Who asked for this? Who demanded integration into Firefox, since it was already a (relatively unpopular) browser extension people could have used instead?

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The real problem nowadays is, even though there are around 100 browsers to choose from, there are not much alternatives when you want to avoid big brother browsers, there are only Firefox or some forks (with some excepcions, mostly crappy and outdated), some indies, like Vivaldi and UR from small EU companies, Otter, SSuite Netsurf if you have Windows, and not much more, some text only browsers apart.