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FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers (techcrunch.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Make sure to check your Firefox about:config for "shopping2023" or whatever flag they called it... Soon we'll all have Fakespot installed

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

shopping2023

thanks, disabled it immediately

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't find any information on this, can you share a source?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is where I got the screenshot from:

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

Here's the internal meta-ticket on shopping2023, along with some stuff on fetching ads from servers

And here's their announcement:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/fakespot-joins-mozilla-firefox-shopping-announcement/

(Before Mozilla bought this company, its privacy policy was changed to allow transfer of private data upon sale -- all of it, not just the training model. Here's the old policy for comparison to their April 25 version; 7 days later Mozilla made the acquisition announcement)