Also, those devices are always capturing data. So if/when they ever connect, that data will get uploaded.

This seems to be the key bit of the comment.

Outside of the examples listed, a more reasonable possibility is if someone else in your home (ex. A family member) connects it to the network. Also even if it doesn’t automatically connect to a public network, well placed popups can also lead to mistakes.

Too much for me, I’m out 🏳️

I think they should sell it to me.

As an unrelated point, when I searched again just now, most of the entries in the search engine were from Lemmy/Mbin, followed by Mastodon. Mostly this post and others like it

So you got this survey in an email. Was the link intended to be shared like this? Can I find the survey link somewhere on Mozilla’s own websites?

The email was through their newsletter and I would have offered to forward it, if it didn’t have personal information in it. Maybe someone else who is subscribed to the newsletter can back up the claim instead?

I actually searched for the website link to put in the post body before sharing, and went through a similar thought process as yours when I didn’t find it. My reasons for sharing it anyway were:

• Sometimes these emails say to not share it further, but this one didn’t
• I see it shared already in a few places unofficially (Mastodon, Reddit, Twitter)
• It mentioned ‘Mozilla Community’ and not a more specific group, so this audience seemed appropriate
• People here might have better feedback than I could write up, so it should be a net positive for Mozilla

It would be nice if they did post about it on an official account to resolve any concerns. If it helps, it looks like “mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net” has been used for other surveys in the past and so you might find a link to that domain from an official source

edit:

their website has links to that domain based on a search of the GitHub repo

For example, the ‘Submit a product here’ link on this page: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/

It’s also possible to submit without filling in the demographic questions if people are concerned but still want to submit

I see a textbox saying “What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?” You could add it there, as justification for why you want them to focus less on it

There is a text box part way through, I included my more general thoughts there

(my comment was getting rambly)

Specific to generative AI, I think client side generation can be a good thing, such as sentiment analysis or better word suggestions/autocomplete.

A number of other helpful tasks have negative outcomes, but if someone is going to use it, then I prefer they use the version of the tech that minimizes those negative outcomes. Whether Mozilla should be focussing on building that is a different matter though

AI that isn’t generative AI has a lot of positive uses, but usually that’s not what these discussions are about