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’m not opposed to the tool itself but they can fuck off with pushing it onto us. If I want to see the newest Firefox features I’ll go the main site and find them.
That won’t do for any even remotely normal user and you know that!
You’re saying that no remotely normal person would ever bother to download Fakespot free of charge if it wasn’t pushed at them through obnoxious in-browser advertising? And how much did Mozilla pay for this thing?
No, I did not say that. As evident by, well, what I wrote there.
No? What was your justification for building big and intrusive ads for Fakespot into Firefox then, if not that nobody would otherwise bother to go looking for it?
My mom would love that feature, and she wouldnt go looking for it.
Also that popup only appears when you click a tiny “shopping tag” icon in the adress bar, and THAT icon only appears on supported websites
Ah well, that’s not so bad as I feared (as an esr and librewolf user I won’t be seeing it for a while) but not so good as it might be. A little notification icon that appears when there’s an update to inform people of such things is traditional and makes more sense to me.
Showing it instead when you visit a particular site unfortunately reminds people likely to be unhappy about it that their web browser now contains features designed specifically for the benefit of a small list of supported web sites.