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FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers (techcrunch.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Make sure to check your Firefox about:config for "shopping2023" or whatever flag they called it... Soon we'll all have Fakespot installed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

shopping2023

thanks, disabled it immediately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't find any information on this, can you share a source?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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)