I also think there’s no ethical problem. But the latter part seems to be completely legal (so it’s specific to a country’s laws) rather than ethical, which I also agree with.

Why do you think it’s a reliance (without it things will break) rather than a substitutable service?

How about the old contributors using AI to assist coding? Is that ethical?

https://github.com/dockur/windows or https://github.com/TibixDev/winboat

It’s not even open source. Being in Europe doesn’t automatically grant you the privacy, let alone the free software rights.

That patch is manually added. Moreover, some apps have hard binding with their id, making the situation more complicated. Kiwi is not on f-droid at all. They host their own version. It might be easier for the app authors to do it. But f-droid maintainers don’t have this capacity.

The thing is that changing the app id requires too much patching to thousands of apps, and the users will not be able to migrate from the current f-droid version.

Good to know that they have first-class Linux support.

For those who haven’t read the article, the suggested solution is for advertisers to obtain similar user IDs by using their own user list; it has nothing to do with gathering user data from the browser.

It is utilized in conjunction with other differential privacy technologies that gather user information and classify users.

In fairness, Mozilla needs a means of making money if anyone hopes Firefox or Librewolf to exist in the long run.

You are right. I think they should make it more clear.

In the FakeSpot privacy notice, Google Analytics, Social Media Platforms, Contact Info, and Identifiers are not collected by Firefox, among others. So it’s fair to say the data collected is not linked to the user.

The browser.shopping.experience2023.ads.enabled flag is intriguing. So I took a look. It turns out that the recommendation is only based on the current page you request the review analysis.

In general, I believe that it is primarily ambiguous legal documents rather than a genuine invasion of privacy.

In OP’s screenshot, you are only going to agree to Mozilla’s privacy policy and FakeSpot’s TOS. So the FakeSpot’s privacy policy is not involved.