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The whole article's a great read, but here's a fun excerpt=

To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.โ€ --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included

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[-] LWD@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Do a search on the page for "Category of Third Parties to Whom Personal Information is Sold and/or Shared". The following are sold to advertising partners:

  • 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)
  • Inferences drawn from other personal information to create a profile about a consumer
  • Geolocation data (e.g., ... your device's precise location)
[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago

Ah shit, you're right, my bad.

[-] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Damn, hadn't realized Mozilla was doing ad profiling! ๐Ÿ˜“

Anybody know of a way to disable that somehow, mobile\desktop? If its not a thing I think I might be jumping ship... Really hoped Firefox had their shit together!

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Go to about:config, search "shopping2023" and start switching to false

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

They're not, Fakespot, a service it'll prompt you to enable, may do that once it's interested

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