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

    • xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      10 months ago

      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!

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        9 months ago

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

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        10 months ago

        They’re not, Fakespot, a service it’ll prompt you to enable, may do that once it’s interested