cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20260243
Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled
Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.
Mozilla also runs the ad company Mozilla Anonym, and now they traffic in other people’s data.
Huh, that’s a pretty recent acquisition. I guess we’ll see what they do with it.
Mozilla sells geolocation and browsing data to ad companies.
But isn’t this only if you opt-in to their extension? I don’t, have never, and probably will never use that extension.
But I guess we’ll see if they’ll amend the privacy policy of FakeSpot and stop the sale of personal data to advertisers, which would be in-line with the privacy policy on the rest of their services. But that absolutely is my line in the sand. If they integrate FakeSpot with that terrible privacy policy into Firefox, I will leave to a different browser. I sincerely hope they just haven’t fully integrated the FakeSpot org into Mozilla, though their Privacy Policy was updated in Jan of this year, over 6 months after the acquisition.
Maybe Mozilla won’t change. I don’t know. What I do know is they’re currently the best option for an open web. If they fumble that, I guess I’ll go try using something like Konqueror again. But until that happens, I’ll just avoid their services that violate my privacy.
Wait and see…
FakeSpot was the last “Wait and See” moment I experienced as Mozilla fans told me Mozilla would fix their terrible privacy policy.
They did not.
Perhaps you also missed their recent round of firing employees, which they attempted to pin on an executive with cancer who spoke out against disproportionately firing minorities too…
