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How would I proceed if I wanted to find out if #Google processes my personal data based on an anonymous contract which I had to enter into in order to use my Android TV cable box (not connected to my Google account)?

And how can I retract from that contract (which the Google terms allow for) separate from any of my Google accounts?

#GDPR #privacy #darkPatterns

Alvan 🇵🇸 :prami:

@alvan@social.lol · 2 days ago

@firefoxwebdevs
This is - I believe - the best UX so far. If a feature is activated *after* a user interaction, this is good enough opt-in approach, that also balances a little marketing. I, for example, would like an AI tab grouper; but I wouldn't be able to know it exists if I dont firefox changelog (that avg user never do).

Cc: @giacomo @alextecplayz

Giacomo Tesio

@giacomo@snac.tesio.it replied · 2 days ago

Giacomo Tesio

@giacomo@snac.tesio.it · 6 days ago

@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social

Not quite

The point is that permission prompts are shown when a permission is required to fulfill a user request.

To create a tab group in #Firefox you do not need #AI, so such popup-wide, easy to mis-click, button is a gratuitous waste of user attention. It's just an #ads of a feature that you want people to use and get used to.

As for this being #privacy preserving: where are the models downloaded from? Is it a #CDN that could identify otherwise logged users by their IP and thus learning about the fact they use such model? And how often Firefox will chech for model updates?

@alvan@social.lol

#Firefox doesn't "balance a little marketing": in the screenshot provided by @firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social you can see at least two #DarkPatterns at work:

a popup-wide button
no mention of #AI whatsoever: "Suggest more of my tabs" is a very misleading label for "opt-in into AI controlled tabs from now on"!

#Mozilla is pushing #AI down the throat of most users, knowing very well that they would never activate it and without explaining them how it works.

And note that this has nothing to do with your personal preferences or people reading changelogs: as others have pointed out, if Firefox is so eagger to let people know about the new AI features, the could just showcase them just after update, providing a non misleading button to enabled each of them, like many other software do: https://ui-patterns.com/patterns/Guided-tour

As it stands, and given the alternatives, Mozilla #UX is overly malicious and I guess it would not pass any serious #GDPR compliance check.

Indeed I still wait for an answer to these questions: https://snac.tesio.it/giacomo/p/1770122154.401646

I guess it's because those model are updated frequently from #BigTech's servers around the world and Mozilla doesn't want people to realize how often their online status is revealed to such corporations through update checks by their " #privacy friendly" Firefox AI.

@alextecplayz@techhub.social

Guided Tour design pattern

Design Pattern: The user wants to learn about new or unfamiliar interface features.

Karl Fredrik 🦊 @39c3 📞QFOX

@kfh@chaos.social · 2 days ago

And how can I retract from that contract (which the Google terms allow for) separate from any of my Google accounts?

#GDPR #privacy #darkPatterns

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