Mozilla deepens Firefox integration with privacy-invasive services, such as Google Lens and Perplexity.
And as always, privacy matters – Perplexity maintains strict prohibitions against selling or sharing personal data.
Isn’t perplexity one of the worst of them all?
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I think someone needs to stage an intervention at Firefox development HQ..
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Won’t matter. Guaranteed Google money makes them complacent. It has to be this. There’s no other logical answer for this level of continued “incompetency” from them on so many fronts for many years now.
Mozilla… why are you always like this.
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Mozilla has been going on a financial downturn lately so they’re scrambling for any potential business model.
If the DOJ got their way and banned Google from paying companies for including Google search by default, Mozilla would be screwed. There would be no way for them to survive without this deal.
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This is so perplexing (no-pun intended) because it’s the same company who does great privacy-respecting AI offering like local page translation and local, one click, AI models framework (Llamafile).
Now I do sonder whether they get money from AI chatbot integration (they propose 5 options). (I would say no because currently it is mostly a sidebar with a custom prompt injectés with the website loaded.)
What about the search image with Google Lens? Are they just integrating it because they believe it to be the only decent option, or they get extra money ?
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They are also trying hard to become an advertising network:
Unlocking value while maintaining privacy of advertisers’ sensitive first-party (1P) data has long been a challenge for advertisers…
…especially appealing to advertisers who previously avoided activating sensitive data…
As far as i understand it, this protects advertisers from leaking the data they collected themselves from users to ad networks for free. Instead they can now monetize that data in a different way in the future, like selling. Wow Mozilla, much privacy innovation /s