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”.
I know … But people actually literally want this.
Maybe FF is what we install for normies while we use forks for other flavours.
Who’s tearfully begging for a chatbot to tell them what a review page says instead of just clicking on the page and reading the actual reviews wtf
Normies.
Our IT department is constantly getting tickets to unblock random shitty stuff like that.
I cannot explain it, not even a little, I just know it’s a thing.
Perhaps the general ad infestation of everything blurred the lines.
In a way, in the immediate sense of the moment, being sold bullshit by AI/algorithms or irl by a sales person isn’t that much different. And people don’t care about tomorrow or anything they can’t immediately see.
(Im guessing, all of it)
Does fakespot have a chatbot? I thought it predated LLMs and is basically just some human-made algorithms to filter out suspicious reviews.
No-one except advertisers want this.
Most people simply do not care at all.
Why do advertisers want you to have tools that help you detect covert advertising?
In long term, for substituting them with their own links. In short term it’s a nice feature.
Because Mozilla takes a metric shitload of your data via fakespot such as (but not limited to)
https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy
And then sells it to advertisers
Read the room