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?

    • LWD@lemm.eeOP
      121·
      8 months ago

      LibreWolf is a perfect recommendation for people in a privacy community like this one. I use it, and I love it. But…

      • It’s a tougher sell for the average computer boomer, with both letterboxing and potential site-breaking features
      • LibreWolf is built atop Firefox, so this change will increase their workload
      • I just wish Mozilla lived up to their promises and built a good, successful browser

      Maybe I want the impossible, but ideally we could have two good browsers that respect user privacy instead of just one.

      • qfjp@lemmy.one
        2·
        8 months ago

        FYI, the new midori looks like a shameless clone of floorp. The only differences I can find are the default bookmarks and that floorp updates faster.

        • Zerush@lemmy.ml
          1·
          8 months ago

          Maybem anywy I use it only for tests. I like to have browsers with different engines to test in a webpage issue if it is because Blink or is general for others too. Because of this I have also the Otter browser (the fastest browser of all I had tested, it has a own adblocker and good privacy, but there are no extensions for it)

          • qfjp@lemmy.one
            1·
            8 months ago

            I didn’t know about otter, I was just starting to look for more since I miss the days of uzbl and all its inspirations. As far as I can tell, qute is the only one that survived

            • Zerush@lemmy.ml
              2·
              8 months ago

              Otter is a nice and blazing fast browser (by far way more than any other), but even it blocks some ads, there sadly isn’t any extensions store for it. Well, you can ad funcionalities with scripts.

      • Asudox@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Midori Browser’s motto is total privacy, because we don’t spy on you, we don’t sell invasive advertising, we don’t generate profiles of you, because we provide you with tools like a VPN.

        No thanks.

        • Zerush@lemmy.ml
          11·
          8 months ago

          The privacy is the same as in FF, but it has some more features. The problem of all Gecko forks is Mozilla, since it is sponsored mainly by Google, even sending data to Alphabet.Inc. That means that FF and forks are only private, if you use other sync provider than Mozilla.