Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by black_puppydog on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:37AM (#17362926)

wait, why do they need users' emails?

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by tinus_hn on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:38AM (#17363206)

If you want, you can create an account to ‘sync your ghostery settings’. The username of the account is your email address.

The exposure happened because they sent a mail with a lot of people in the CC: field. Amateurish but it happens. The irony is that the mail was to inform you of the privacy changes due to GDPR.

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by Cthulhu_ on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:10AM (#17363062)

They don't, that's the thing; they wanted to monetize their service, and selling e-mail addresses and user data is one way to do that.

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