Hello, smart people. Filling out an online form to volunteer for something, Firefox's Facebook-fence icon appeared on the email field. Confused, I clicked on its question mark. On the next page, Mozilla wanted to sell me Firefox relay for $7/mo. (That's their VPN + email masking + phone masking.) I used my yandex.ru email address instead for $0. Here's the question: is Facebook really able to track me because I've signed up to volunteer for Cornel West (setting aside the FB-Russia blockage issue)? Thanks.
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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I don't think you need relay/VPN to block the facebook stuff if you have the container turned on? I haven't gotten a popup like that from Firefox before
Indeed, this sounds like a scummy way to sell vpn. While it is true that Facebook embeds tracking in other sites, these can be easily blocked without vpn.
I mean... OP interacted with a privacy feature. The tracking was already blocked, but if you go further, you might be interested in privacy in other ways. It's not an entirely unreasonable place to assume a user might be interested in your other privacy products.
That being said, I don't know that I would put all my privacy eggs in one basket with one company. I use a variety of products, free and paid.
Also using a VPN won't help at all.