# Choose how you search and stay organized with Firefox

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/choose-how-you-search-and-stay-organized-with-firefox/32115
**Category:** General
**Tags:** article
**Created:** 2025-10-15T14:19:45Z
**Posts:** 8

## Post 1 by @Encounter5729 — 2025-10-15T14:19:45Z

> **[Choose how you search and stay organized with Firefox | The Mozilla Blog](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-144/)**
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> At Mozilla, we build Firefox around one principle: putting you in control. With today’s release, we’re introducing new features that make browsing smar

Mozilla deepens Firefox integration with privacy-invasive services, such as Google Lens and Perplexity.

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## Post 2 by @win11.shading291 — 2025-10-15T20:31:12Z

> And as always, privacy matters – [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-policy) maintains strict prohibitions against selling or sharing personal data.

:frowning: Isn’t perplexity one of the worst of them all?

> **[What privacy? Perplexity wants your data, builds browser to track you and...](https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/04/what-privacy-perplexity-wants-your-data-builds-browser-to-track-you-and-serve-ads)**
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> AI search service Perplexity AI doesn't just want you using its app—it wants to take over your web browsing experience too.

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## Post 3 by @privacyisconsent — 2025-10-15T20:37:59Z

I think someone needs to stage an intervention at Firefox development HQ..

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## Post 4 by @anon57862721 — 2025-10-15T20:38:49Z

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.

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## Post 5 by @null — 2025-10-15T21:54:36Z

Mozilla… why are you always like this.

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## Post 6 by @KevPham — 2025-10-15T21:59:50Z

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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## Post 7 by @Encounter5729 — 2025-10-15T22:43:41Z

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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## Post 8 by @CyberOtter — 2025-10-16T09:22:51Z

They are also trying hard to become an advertising network:

> **[Anonym and Snap partner to unlock increased performance for advertisers | The...](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/advertising/anonym/anonym-snap-partnership/)**
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> An ads milestone in marketing reach without data risk. The ad industry is shifting, and with it comes a clear need for advertisers to use data responsibly

> 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