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”.

  • @[email protected]English
    40•2 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.

    • @rtxnEnglish
      51•2 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•2 months ago

        I never said they should trust. But if they trust Mozilla with the telemetry/pockets/whatever they put on the browser this one is just like the others.

      • @[email protected]
        5•2 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.

        • @[email protected]
          14•2 months ago

          Mozilla Foundation has no members, it’s operated by the for-profit Corporation, and the Corporation is powered by its profit motive.

          • @rtxnEnglish
            9•2 months ago

            Even worse, the majority of its revenue comes from Google for making it the default search engine.

    • @[email protected]English
      21•2 months ago

      Using AI to detect AI is completely useless. It’s been a big issue in academics, where a professor will plug your essay into an AI detector and then you get dinged for plagiarism because your entirely handwritten essay gets marked as AI. It’s just glorified pattern matching, it has no concept of real or fake.

      • @[email protected]English
        11•2 months ago

        If the AI could really detect any discrepancies between human and AI-generated text, it would stop making them.

    • @laughterlaughter
      12•2 months ago

      And why is it useless?

      It’s not useless. It’s just that it’s bloatware that’s unnecessary for many.

      Like a car with a bright orange “Order Bird Food” button in the middle of the dashboard. If you don’t own any birds, then it sucks.

      • @[email protected]English
        -2•2 months ago

        Nothing new in the helm of browsers. Pockets is a extension baked into the browser.

        Many browsers have VPN/Ad Block native to the browser. Opera GX have all that bullshit that surprising can deceive a lot of normies to use it.

        Sadly this type of bloat sells as “features” to some people and Mozilla gains users with it. Btw I’m not defending this practice I just seeing for what it is, marketing.

        • @laughterlaughter
          6•2 months ago

          Sure, sure, other browsers do it. But I expected more of Mozilla.

          Pocket was already bad enough, but it was kiiiiinda related to browsing anyway - it was a glorified bookmarking tool. It had a nice purpose too - save pages for online reading - but they seem to have gotten rid of that and I’m mad about it.