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The letters "anon" don't appear anywhere in the privacy policy.
So where are you pulling this claim from, because it doesn't smell right...
Mozilla claims the service respects your privacy because they are using OHTTP (which does NOT provide anonymity)... The marketing speak implies anonymity heavily, but doesn't say it
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/review-checker-review-quality
That's not the privacy policy.
The FakeSpot privacy policy is right here. No mention of anonymization when they sell data to ad brokers.
Regarding OHTTP: It's a CDN proxy with a pinkie promise. I trust their partnership with Firefox as much as I trust them with Google: not much.
In OP's screenshot, you are only going to agree to Mozilla's privacy policy and FakeSpot's TOS. So the FakeSpot's privacy policy is not involved.
And if you had actually read the FakeSpot TOS:
You are right. I think they should make it more clear.
In the FakeSpot privacy notice, Google Analytics, Social Media Platforms, Contact Info, and Identifiers are not collected by Firefox, among others. So it's fair to say the data collected is not linked to the user.
The
browser.shopping.experience2023.ads.enabled
flag is intriguing. So I took a look. It turns out that the recommendation is only based on the current page you request the review analysis.In general, I believe that it is primarily ambiguous legal documents rather than a genuine invasion of privacy.
I am aware its not the privacy policy, i have read through the privacy policy, however the fact that the info get proxied through and anonymised on fastly's servers counts for something