[HN Gopher] Mozilla's first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter
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       Mozilla's first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter
        
       Author : clouddrover
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-10-23 01:08 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (foundation.mozilla.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (foundation.mozilla.org)
        
       | meristohm wrote:
       | I'm "off the grid", apparently, but that quiz list is incomplete.
       | I use a credit card. I use a mobile phone. I used to connect to
       | my car with bluetooth (now I use an aux cable, mainly to avoid
       | having to shut off the car when my spouse's phone gets picked up
       | first). I use Gmail (and ProtonMail, increasingly). I'm not
       | paranoid, though; some information is a fair trade for
       | functionality, and there's a lot of "functionality" I'm not
       | particularly drawn to.
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       | I appreciate that the user can skip to result's with giving
       | Mozilla an email address. I generally like Firefox and
       | Thunderbird, using those more than any other similar, but
       | increasingly Moz://a feels a bit pushy-creepy. Less than many
       | others, but still.
        
         | richardjam73 wrote:
         | Maybe that is an indictment of how bad tracking has become that
         | those things are not even considered any more?
        
       | krackers wrote:
       | >First-ever annual creep-o-meter
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       | >Asks for email address to sign up for a mailing list
       | 
       | Ironic.
        
         | Condition1952 wrote:
         | Thanks to SimpleLogin and a password manager, Email signup is
         | not creepy anymore
        
         | 10729287 wrote:
         | This is one of my grief towards Mozilla. They seem to ALWAYS
         | try to trick me into signing for their newsletter. Actually it
         | seems to be the main goal of this creep-o-meter, uncomplete and
         | unreliable as it is.
        
       | pimlottc wrote:
       | I was confused why there were only 4 products in the list until I
       | realized the scroll bar was hidden on mobile. Sigh.
        
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