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PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big "yes, try it" button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool

https://queer.party/@m04/112872517189786676

So, Mozilla adds an AI review features for products you view using Firefox. Other than being very useless, it's T&C are as anti-consumer as it possibly can be. It's like mozilla saying directly "we don't care about your privacy".

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[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Why do you think it's useless?

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh they're finally integrating fake spot? That's awesome, actually! Pretty cool plugin, that!

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sure, Mozilla customer representative #37.

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IANAL, but I don't think T&Cs are really legally binding and can be easily fought against in court.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

While true, it requires time and money to get a case before the court. Which most people don't have. If your rights require you to invest your time and money against a much larger adversarial party in court, then it's not your rights that are being protected in the first place. Right now Big Tech is more worried about us exercising our rights instead of being afraid of trampling on them in the first place.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I'm not opposed to the tool itself but they can fuck off with pushing it onto us. If I want to see the newest Firefox features I'll go the main site and find them.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I know ... But people actually literally want this.

Maybe FF is what we install for normies while we use forks for other flavours.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But people actually literally want this.

No-one except advertisers want this.

Most people simply do not care at all.

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why do advertisers want you to have tools that help you detect covert advertising?

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[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm starting to worry about Mozilla. Firefox is still the best browser, and I've used it for many years... but there are more and more anti-features popping up that require a few settings to be changed. No one thing is a big deal, but I'm starting to feel the same way about Firefox as I did about Windows before I stopped using it: like it's just trying to trick me into doing something I don't want to do rather than aiming to be a good product.

I'm thinking specifically about the address bar getting 'search suggestions' from Google by default; and the special 'ad effectiveness tracking' that is turned on by default to help Facebook. Privacy should always be the default setting. We shouldn't have to keep up-to-date with the latest features and settings just so that we know what to disable!

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[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

How does "waiving your right to a lawsuit" hidden in a terms and conditions apply? I bet it doesn't

[–] antler@feddit.rocks 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Internet or other electronic network activity (e.g., browsing history, search history, information regarding an individual's interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement, and online viewing activities)

Category of Third Parties to Whom Personal Information is Sold and/or Shared: Advertising partners, Service providers

Just a snippet of the privacy policy. There's other bad stuff too like location tracking. It's also all ran through Google analytics.

So much for a privacy respecting Mozilla

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[–] kehet@suppo.fi 6 points 1 month ago

Back to surf it seems

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