Wow. Just over two years ago, this was only a security issue. Now Google is actively exploiting it to make it a privacy issue too. (Okay, Google could have been quietly exploiting it this whole time.)

TikTok’s In-App Browser Includes Code That Can Monitor Your Keystrokes, Researcher Says

There are a few good points in that response and a few I don’t. They also concede a couple points, and complain about somebody who reposted that article (but not the original author I linked, thankfully).

To address your question: For example, sure, maybe Google does cache data but…

1. It’s probably better to have data in two places deleted from one place (Lemmy) instead of neither place
2. Google allows you to specifically request removal of caches anyway
3. Canonizing deletion of data probably has legal and tech benefits. (I’m not a lawyer, but deletion after a reasonable retention rate probably will help server administrators more than it hurts them, and it certainly helps the users.)

That’s actually very boilerplate and tame compared to what Lemmy actually does with your data…

BTW, this Magic Lasso is an ad blocker for Safari.

Between this, and Magic Lasso quoting themselves, this blog post is really hard to take seriously

Hey, it’s been a few weeks. Guess whether Mozilla has updated their privacy policy yet!

It’s very clear what they say on their corporate website, right?

Set up a new email on Gmail or Proton Mail

Two words. They could have removed two words and made the instructions infinitely better.

And this is on the web page where, if you tap on it three times, it instantly exits out and goes to DuckDuckGo. Which is pretty neat.

And the blame for Mozilla’s lack of transparency rests entirely on Mozilla’s shoulders.

If you know anything about Mozilla’s finances at all, you know that they always are one to two years out of date. So your response, which I’ve seen before, is ignorant at best, and really disingenuous at worst. I hope for the former.

$6.9 mil the last time they said. And that was in a year where CEO salary was (on average) cut across all for-profit companies, because even businesses react to market forces sometimes.

The fact that the United States intentionally makes these zones really subverts the conspiracy theory that the government is using 5G to control our minds (or whatever the theorists say these days).

What an email to read. I find it particularly valuable for the things it does not say, but not at all encouraging.

We are in the process of updating our privacy policy for additional clarity on all the points referenced in your email.

They don’t say the TOS is incorrect or too broad. And they don’t say they will remove their promise to sell private data to advertisers.

At this time, Fakespot does not sell or share any user data pursuant to any applicable privacy laws.

At this time? Pursuant to the law? If Mozilla is abiding by law and nothing more, that explains why they are legally forced to admit they sell private data to advertisers.

And the law is the lowest bar imaginable. Google operates under the law. Is Mozilla not better than them?

… service providers who make Faksepot run…

…and they can’t spell their own name right.

I thought some worked by flashing infrared LEDs to overwhelm the cameras’ sensors. AFAIK there are multiple varieties of camera repellant.

Look harder, I believe it’s in developer settings.

But is IS nightly, this sort of thing is to be expected right

Still waiting for you to fix your grossly blatant lie which claims that Mozilla simply took a W3C proposal rather than crafting it with one of the most unethical companies on the planet.

Not only did you lie in an attempt to launder Mozilla’s behavior through the W3C, but your lie was also used as an attack, not just some random innocent comment.

Depending how deep you are into using the service, this might be an indicator to start shopping around for other options, as there are some that provide multiple domains and unlimited aliases for the cool price of $0 versus whatever Proton charges you…

…Especially if iCloud makes the other side of the equation difficult.

This is an okay starting point, but hopefully they make it optional and configurable.

They could learn from Vivaldi.

I take issue with anyone who misleads others, as you were doing. You should feel ashamed of yourself, you should correct your comment at a bare minimum, and you should consider an apology to those you have misled.

So you admit you are being dishonest now, because your original statement was

They’ve taken a W3C proposal and implemented it. It’s that simple.

You need to go back to your original comment and correct your wrong portrayal of Mozilla and the W3C. You need to name Mozilla and Facebook as collaborators in the creation of the standard, and consider apologizing to the people you misled.

The Mozilla Foundation is a thin wrapper for the Mozilla Corporation, and it’s run by the executives themselves.

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Please explain to me how sending additional data from your private computer to Mozilla servers gives me more privacy and not less.