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Who else is surprised that Mozilla uses “technical and interaction data” for advertising purposes on the New Tab Page? (www.quippd.com)
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Mozilla’s legal updates from last week are the gift that keep on giving. Take a look at the table below (extracted from the Firefox Privacy Notice):

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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not me. They were incredibly up front about it and you can disable the new tab recommendations in less than five clicks. Technical and interaction data would include if you followed any of the recommended links or not. Technical could be simply if you're on a desktop, laptop, phone, or tablet, as different content forms are better suited to different devices. This really feels like jumping at shadows.

I feel like there's a ton of people freaking out about privacy who never took the ten minutes to scroll through the settings page. That's... silly.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 6 points 21 hours ago

Every time there's a huge outcry, and people say "disable that now!", I check my settings and everything is already off, since years that is.

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

I actually hadn't checked the documentation (serves me right, of course), but I can't see where they are up front about it:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-tab#w_data-and-privacy https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy#w_what-data-is-shared

When you view or click on a sponsored shortcut, Firefox sends anonymized technical data to our partner through a Mozilla-owned proxy service. The code for this proxy service is available on GitHub for interested technical audiences. This data does not include any personally identifying information and is only shared when you click on a sponsored shortcut.

By default, when stories are recommended on your New Tab page, Firefox collects data on how often they appear and how many times they are clicked. This data is not linked to any technical or interaction information about you or your Firefox browser. You can learn more about the data we collect and opt out data collection if you prefer.

If you choose topics of interest to personalize your recommendations, the selected topics will be collected to improve the relevance of the recommended articles and sponsored content on your New Tab page. This information is also not associated with any technical or interaction data about you or your Firefox browser.

Do you see any reference here what we see today on the new Mozilla Privacy Notice that says that you can opt out of tracking for ads by disabling the "technical and interaction" data checkbox?

[-] alykanas@slrpnk.net 1 points 21 hours ago

Who uses the default new tab page ?

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

SO its interesting..

For weeks I've been having this issue in firefox that it seems to accumulate memory in some tabs and go completely off the rails.

Earlier someone gave a recommendation for turning these things off and I turned them all off.

All of a sudden.. no more memory issues.

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