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The way Mozilla is pushing their Firefox accounts is really scaring me. I don't see what they get from you having an account with them if it isn't targeted adv
by NilsIRL 7y ago
The way Mozilla is pushing their Firefox accounts is really scaring me.
I don't see what they get from you having an account with them if it isn't targeted advertising.
And example of this is Firefox send which requires an account to raise the download limit from 1.
- glandium 7y agoI can't talk about Firefox Send, but in this case, AIUI, an account is required to generate a token to use with the VPN (proxy, really) provider. Otherwise, the provider would just be providing an open proxy. Which could then happily be abused by spammers and whatnot. (Come to think of it, it's probably a similar reason for Firefox Send ; you don't want anonymous unlimited hosting)
- NilsIRL 7y agoYes, but what prevents you from creating fake firefox accounts?