Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions

Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by daveoc64 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:30AM (#28784067)

> How can they make _relevant_ suggestions without spying on my browsing history, profiling it and phoning back to the mothership?

If you search for "hotels", they'll show you suggestions that match "hotels".

Doesn't seem that complicated to me.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by executesorder66 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:25AM (#28785326)

They didn't ask how can they make relevant suggestions. They asked how can they make relevant suggestions WITHOUT SPYING ON MY BROWSING HISTORY.

Try again.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by daveoc64 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:01AM (#28786370)

I answered that already.

If you search for "hotels", they'll show you things related to "hotels".

That doesn't require access to your browsing history - it's right there in the search term.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by executesorder66 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:10PM (#28790067)

Okay then maybe browsing history was too specific a term. It might not be in the list of URLs you have visited, but it is in a list of things you have searched. So your search history.

The principal is the same. People don't want their private lives (in part expressed through what they search for) exploited and exposed.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by Aeolun on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:46AM (#28785012)

But I don’t want Mozilla to know what I’m searching for?

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by jamienicol on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:36AM (#28785425)

And that's your choice, and you're free to not enable this feature. I trust Mozilla with what I'm searching for more than I trust Google though

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