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State of Online Privacy Reaches 'Creepy' Level

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Pretty creepy that they need my email to tell me which of the shockingly few services they're asking about are creepy.

There’s a button to skip it, though you might have to first click on the input box to get it to show up.

It appeared immediately here.

More bothered by the embeds from fundraiseup.com, google-analytics.com, googletagmanager.com, sentry.io, shpg.org .

I agree.

I find the content Mozilla Foundation posts to be very good (their podcast, research and articles are excellent). However, when they rely on Google for funding the browser and invoke tracking into their website it does scream a bit of whitewashing. Hopefully they are able to fix that to be more morally consistent.

Of popular gadgets, Garmin watches (at least fenix series) can work without any additional connectivity and will do all metrics processing on the device.

I love the great battery life and the lack of required connection on garmins. I had an apple but who wants that daily charge requirement.

Even huami (Xiaomi or amazfit) watches, while terrible for privacy out of the box, can be made super privacy friendly with gadgetbridge. An open source sync app that doesn't even have internet access.

And they're a lot cheaper, thinner and lighter than Garmin has to offer, and run weeks on battery <3

The majority of Mozilla Corporation’s revenue is from royalties earned through Firefox web browser search partnerships around the world.

Royalties for the non-profit corporation from web browser search partnerships.

Technically this is Poetry, nothing creepy about it.

"mental health apps"?

This is like offering heroin to a junkie...

The overwhelming cause of millenial mental health issues are related to an overindulgence in pretending that electronic communication is a "commmunity", a place with their "friends".

Living, You're doing it wrong! Get the app...

Do you have any source for that?

People chronically addicted to the internet tend to be depressed. This is a anecdote though but I get it.

It could also be that chronically depressed people tend to get addicted to the internet. It's very error-prone to assume causal links by how things look.

Very good point.

“Inspired by the iconic Doomsday Clock…”

The Doomsday clock is iconic. A 90s emoji on a garish slider, not so much.

> Meaningful consent is becoming increasingly difficult for consumers; for instance ...

https://tosdr.org is good for that, why don't Mozilla just contribute to an existing project

Hollow words coming from Mozilla. They push this rhetoric with one hand, while the other plunges deeper into the monetized analytics hole.

That doesn't make their assertion wrong, though.

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