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Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting
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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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I use Duck.AI a lot, and it says its privacy oriented and doesnt save your queries. Is Firefox doing anything similar, or is it all monetized data?
The geo-exfiltration of personal information needs to be in great big banner lights; and not just because you're outside America, or China, or wherever the bot happens to be where Firefox is exfitrating your history as queries.
Exfil is bad; geo-exfiltration is next-level bad.
Mozilla try not to anger their user base with their new features challenge (impossible)
Mozilla is still being paid by Google so they can continue to exist and make sure Google won't be sued for monopoly behaviors, is it not?
If so, is it fair to assume that Google is just paying them to piss off the user base so that everyone will use chrome anyways?
If not, them why the fuck has Mozilla been doing everything to be hostile to it's users, for years now?
Yesterday I was nicely prompted to accept their ToS to continue using their service.
No mention if it was FF Relay, Mozilla acc or just Firefox.
Because I didnt want to blindly accept anything I went into the about:config page and disabled the banner.
Honestly: Fuck that.