Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a tradeoff you may not realize you’re making. According to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project, AI girlfriends and boyfriends harvest shockingly personal …
After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product strategy, TechCrunch has learned. Specifically, Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in a number of products, including its VPN, Relay and, somewhat remarkably, its Online Footprint Scrubber, which launched only …
Mozilla Monitor (previously known as Firefox monitor) is a free service that notifies Firefox web browser users when their email has been part of a breach. The company has now announced its new paid subscription service offering. Mozilla will help paid users to automatically remove data from the internet. The paid service will also continuously …
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Desktop web browsers have long supported add-ons and extensions that change the user interface, add features, or otherwise change the behavior of the browser. But it’s more rare to find a mobile browser with support for third-party add-ons. Firefox is one of the exceptions. Firefox for Android first added support for add-ons in 2011, but …
Mozilla now has an early sneak peek of its expanded extension options for Firefox for Android ahead of a wider release next month. In a post on the Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog, the company said starting December 14th, extensions on ‘addons.mozilla.org’ (AMO) that are marked as compatible with Android will become “openly available to Firefox …
Modern-day cars are getting smarter by the day. However, it seems like there’s a huge privacy cost attached to it, claims a research report by Mozilla. “While we worried that our doorbells and watches that connect to the internet might be spying on us, car brands quietly entered the data business by turning their vehicles …