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Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included team digs into privacy issues in "Romantic AI Chatbots". Spooky stuff (foundation.mozilla.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The whole article's a great read, but here's a fun excerpt=

To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do a search on the page for "Category of Third Parties to Whom Personal Information is Sold and/or Shared". The following are sold to advertising partners:

Internet or other electronic network activity (e.g., browsing history, search history, information regarding an individual's interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement, and online viewing activities)
Inferences drawn from other personal information to create a profile about a consumer
Geolocation data (e.g., ... your device's precise location)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah shit, you're right, my bad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Damn, hadn't realized Mozilla was doing ad profiling! 😓

Anybody know of a way to disable that somehow, mobile\desktop? If its not a thing I think I might be jumping ship... Really hoped Firefox had their shit together!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Go to about:config, search "shopping2023" and start switching to false