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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, smart people. Filling out an online form to volunteer for something, Firefox's Facebook-fence icon appeared on the email field. Confused, I clicked on its question mark. On the next page, Mozilla wanted to sell me Firefox relay for $7/mo. (That's their VPN + email masking + phone masking.) I used my yandex.ru email address instead for $0. Here's the question: is Facebook really able to track me because I've signed up to volunteer for Cornel West (setting aside the FB-Russia blockage issue)? Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Indeed, this sounds like a scummy way to sell vpn. While it is true that Facebook embeds tracking in other sites, these can be easily blocked without vpn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean... OP interacted with a privacy feature. The tracking was already blocked, but if you go further, you might be interested in privacy in other ways. It's not an entirely unreasonable place to assume a user might be interested in your other privacy products.

That being said, I don't know that I would put all my privacy eggs in one basket with one company. I use a variety of products, free and paid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Also using a VPN won't help at all.