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Imagine if your browser history was local but every time you use the history feature to revisit a page that URL was sent to Mozilla. How private is that really?
by funkymike 9y ago
Imagine if your browser history was local but every time you use the history feature to revisit a page that URL was sent to Mozilla. How private is that really?
The Pocket code tells Mozilla what ads are being shown and which are clicked on. Since they know that the criteria for ad X is that phrase Y or Z is in the history, then they are gathering data on the type of content you are looking at on the web. This is only one step removed from the actual URLs.
- Dylan16807 9y ago> The Pocket code tells Mozilla what ads are being shown Really? It definitely shouldn't do that. > and which are clicked on That's pretty hard to avoid, though. How much of a problem it is depends on how precise the targeting is. But since you're showing interest by clicking the ad, there's not necessarily much of a privacy issue.