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   scriptjunkie (sj@social.scriptjunkie.us)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 09:21:21 JST scriptjunkie

   I didn't have "Firefox turns into a keylogger for advertisers" on my 2025 bingo card but here we are.
   https://twitter.com/LundukeJournal/status/1895198058289471966

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     Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 10:00:34 JST Bricky

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     @sj Not hiding it.
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     scriptjunkie (sj@social.scriptjunkie.us)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 10:21:46 JST scriptjunkie

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     I guess it's brave now. I can live with some weird background ethereum stuff. I cannot live with selling my keystrokes to advertisers.

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     Dan Veditz (dveditz@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 22:09:55 JST Dan Veditz

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     @sj
     Does it say it can use it "however it wants"? No -- read the rest of the fucking sentence. It can use it to perform the functionality you've asked it to do.

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     scriptjunkie (sj@social.scriptjunkie.us)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 22:09:55 JST scriptjunkie

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     • Dan Veditz

     @dveditz lol.

     https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/114078096843471877

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     scriptjunkie (sj@social.scriptjunkie.us)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 23:46:09 JST scriptjunkie

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     • Dan Veditz

     @dveditz keylogging is not a crime unless it's done without consent. What Mozilla is doing is asking for consent to sell your data. And that data is identified as what you enter into the browser, which at least for me, is virtually all of what I type.

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     Dan Veditz (dveditz@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 23:46:10 JST Dan Veditz

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     @sj
     There's a huge gulf between what Sarah is saying and your "Firefox turns into a keylogger" or Lunduke's "can use your data however it wants".

     The "use" in the TOS is limited by the privacy policy which Sarah says right in that thread. Her complaint is the privacy policy is overly broad and vague and that's a perfectly fair thing to argue about (I have my own questions about what it means). But that's very different from "however [Mozilla] wants"

     A "keylogger" is malware and a crime, and the accusation is offensive. You better have something stronger than a truncated sentence from the TOS to make that claim.