(Before Mozilla bought this company, its privacy policy was changed to allow transfer of private data upon sale – all of it, not just the training model. Here’s the old policy for comparison to their April 25 version; 7 days later Mozilla made the acquisition announcement)
Oh boy, I sure do hope this happens to other companies that do it!
Fakespot’s entire thing seems to be being a cringy AI tool. I feel like whoever uses it should/would understand that this data is leaving their grasp.
Make sure to check your Firefox about:config for “shopping2023” or whatever flag they called it… Soon we’ll all have Fakespot installed
thanks, disabled it immediately
I can’t find any information on this, can you share a source?
This is where I got the screenshot from:
https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy
Here’s the internal meta-ticket on shopping2023, along with some stuff on fetching ads from servers
And here’s their announcement:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/fakespot-joins-mozilla-firefox-shopping-announcement/
(Before Mozilla bought this company, its privacy policy was changed to allow transfer of private data upon sale – all of it, not just the training model. Here’s the old policy for comparison to their April 25 version; 7 days later Mozilla made the acquisition announcement)