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Mozilla’s new Firefox Translations extension is totally offline. Totally. Totally Mozilla offline.

#mozilla #offline #totally #privacy

in reply to Aral Balkan

Yesterday I recommended it... What a stupid thing.

Ah... must edit this. I misunderstood your post completely 😂

in reply to Aral Balkan

Really quite bizarre consent management choices. On the one hand, the extension does show these preferences in a new tab the first time it is loaded, on the other hand, the transmission options it shows are opt-out.

Is this a bet on "GDPR applies, but ePD does not"? Not a bet I would take.

in reply to Aral Balkan

It's nice that they do not use the cloud so that it works even on no-cloud days.

Did jargon really evolve to the point where you do not need to write "the Cloud" with a capital "C"?

Maybe they are storing your technical totally-not-personnally[-]identifying information in cold storage?

That last dash in "personally-identifying" is my doing and provided free of charge. Unless they literally mean they will not personally identify the information but will resort to a third-party.

in reply to Aral Balkan

It does ask you right away instead of having you hunt down these options, and it is still in testing.

Whether this is risky or useful for improving usablitiy depends on the details of what "high level" means.

in reply to Aral Balkan

To be fair that's literally the very first screen that comes up when you install the extension. It absolutely should be opt in rather than opt out, but at least they're not hiding it.