Why am I internet-stalking the pope?

date linked: 9 May 2025

source: link to article, from theverge.com

Some really good reflections in here.

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It took an embarrassing amount of trying to figure out the business model my VPN provider was going for—and its implications for my privacy—before I remembered the date.

a purported Windscribe announcement reading “We promised you all that we will never spend money on external advertisers, and we are sticking with that. However, we need to increase revenue, and that requires some out of the box thinking. We didn’t just think outside of the box, we burned the box up and snorted the ashes. In the resulting euphoria, we decided to skip the middle man (the advertisers) and just sell you your own data back to you. If you want a detailed look at all of your personal data, simply click the link below and download it in a convenient text format. The data dump is free for the next week, so grab it now. Don’t worry, by using this link, only you will be able to see your data. It isn’t available to anyone else, not even Jesus.”

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I’ve been a Mozilla fan for a long time, but this sort of default behavior is why I’m souring on the organization (and why I abandoned Firefox a few months ago).

a screenshot of Firefox’s new Terms of Service, which reads: “Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for “Boston”) and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions - more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.”

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