FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers
Avast closed its Jumpshot subsidiary in 2020 after the antivirus giant was caught selling the browsing activity of millions of its customers.
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Oh boy, I sure do hope this happens to other companies that do it!
Fakespot's entire thing seems to be being a cringy AI tool. I feel like whoever uses it should/would understand that this data is leaving their grasp.
Make sure to check your Firefox about:config for "shopping2023" or whatever flag they called it... Soon we'll all have Fakespot installed
shopping2023
thanks, disabled it immediately
I can't find any information on this, can you share a source?
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)
