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”.

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      FakeSpot also only works on the biggest and most predatory platforms (Walmart and Amazon).

      that also happen to be by far the most popular, and also where you are the mos likely to see fake reviews

  • antler@feddit.rocks
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    11 months ago

    https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy

    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

  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Fakespot is from Mozilla, if you trust Mozilla, why don’t you trust Fakespot?

    And why is it useless? With the amount of fake AI reviews an AI to detect them is not completely useless.

    But the popup is annoying.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      People shouldn’t trust Mozilla either. It’s a company that does company things. Just because it’s not as far-gone as Google doesn’t mean it’s incapable.

      • sudo@lemmy.today
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        11 months ago

        just because its not as far-gone as Google

        The fact that the Mozilla Foundation is non-profit, despite wherever controversy there may be around their decisions of late, is a pretty significant factor.