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What are you putting your trust into? A set of links and list of extensions. If you use the browser to visit these links and use the extensions then they alread

What are you putting your trust into? A set of links and list of extensions. If you use the browser to visit these links and use the extensions then they already have all that info about you. As for mixing work and personal. You can setup multiple accounts and switch between them. And I don't see what the amount of bookmarks has to do with anything, it just brings up relative things faster if you have them bookmarked. Feels almost like you are just trying to come up with reasons to dismiss useful feature.

digisign 5y ago
No, they don't have info about me, at least that part. That's the point. I don't need to switch between accounts, but screens, my client work is on a separate laptop. Try navigating even hundreds of objects on a mobile device, it's not practical. Most of the stuff is not needed there either, for example (at random) I never use stack-exchange from a mobile device.
- nextlevelwizard 5y ago
  >I don't need to switch between accounts, but screens, my client work is on a separate laptop. yeah, so it is not for you. > No, they don't have info about me, at least that part. That's the point. is that really THE point? If so can you please clarify why.
  - digisign 5y ago
    From a user standpoint, information should be given out on a need-to-know basis. We're in a post-storage-scarcity world, after 2005 or so. Data is collected for everything and no longer deleted if it has any value. The fact that organizations are starving for data means they will correlate and profile on anything they are allowed to gather. Once gathered, never deleted, bought and sold. More ethical employees replaced as needed. You're in a librewolf thread, maybe wondering why it exists? For a primer I recommend the Frontline doc, "The United States of Secrets." It is on Kanopy, maybe PBS app for free. Worth paying for. Their more recent Facebook doc was interesting as well. In themselves, bookmarks are not important. But they'd be pretty valuable (combined with other things) to use as an input to an advertising algorithm, no?
    - nextlevelwizard 5y ago
      What information does Mozilla gain from storing your bookmarks they can not get by you using their browser? This reads like some conspiracytheory B.S.
      - digisign 5y ago
        They don't monitor your everyday traffic, so it is a huge number of additional data points for profiling. Everything in those documentaries were considered conspiracy… until they were proven correct. To anyone that is reading, I also recommend the "Social Dilemma" on Netflix, although it comes in from a slightly different angle, encouraging addiction that feeds back into this one.

digisign 5y ago

No, they don't have info about me, at least that part. That's the point. I don't need to switch between accounts, but screens, my client work is on a separate laptop. Try navigating even hundreds of objects on a mobile device, it's not practical. Most of the stuff is not needed there either, for example (at random) I never use stack-exchange from a mobile device.

nextlevelwizard 5y ago
>I don't need to switch between accounts, but screens, my client work is on a separate laptop. yeah, so it is not for you. > No, they don't have info about me, at least that part. That's the point. is that really THE point? If so can you please clarify why.
- digisign 5y ago
  From a user standpoint, information should be given out on a need-to-know basis. We're in a post-storage-scarcity world, after 2005 or so. Data is collected for everything and no longer deleted if it has any value. The fact that organizations are starving for data means they will correlate and profile on anything they are allowed to gather. Once gathered, never deleted, bought and sold. More ethical employees replaced as needed. You're in a librewolf thread, maybe wondering why it exists? For a primer I recommend the Frontline doc, "The United States of Secrets." It is on Kanopy, maybe PBS app for free. Worth paying for. Their more recent Facebook doc was interesting as well. In themselves, bookmarks are not important. But they'd be pretty valuable (combined with other things) to use as an input to an advertising algorithm, no?
  - nextlevelwizard 5y ago
    What information does Mozilla gain from storing your bookmarks they can not get by you using their browser? This reads like some conspiracytheory B.S.
    - digisign 5y ago
      They don't monitor your everyday traffic, so it is a huge number of additional data points for profiling. Everything in those documentaries were considered conspiracy… until they were proven correct. To anyone that is reading, I also recommend the "Social Dilemma" on Netflix, although it comes in from a slightly different angle, encouraging addiction that feeds back into this one.