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.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think you need relay/VPN to block the facebook stuff if you have the container turned on? I haven’t gotten a popup like that from Firefox before

    • zerofk@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Moghul@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        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.