Emphasis on “when it thinks”. Not much point to a privacy control that the device can just ignore for unspecified reasons, and they had 150+ instances of that occurring in this data set.

Nobody working on the inside has ever leaked anything regarding this potentially massive breach of privacy? A perfectly secret conspiracy by everyone involved?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but…

FWIW I’m not seeing this on the Play Store for Firefox 136.0.1 on my Pixel 8a, and I’m not seeing any warnings on Beta or Nightly either:

Without any additional details, I have to admit I’m skeptical. “My brain won’t let me be productive? I know, weed will make this better!” sounds… counterintuitive.

I don’t know how well known it is, but this sort of information is visible already on https://isthereanydeal.com.

Click on a game and look for “Waitlist Price Distribution” under the “Stats” tab:

“I give up! Please don’t do no harm to me, mister, leastaways not my face. All I got left is my rugged good looks.” - same character

“deeeeeeeaaaaaath” -Black and White

And then every once in a while if your name was common enough it would whisper your name instead. Freaked me out first time it happened.

from a shitty movie extremely loosely based on good sci-fi

Good thing that ocean was there or 1600s Virginia would have claimed the entire planet with their innovative “peeling the label off a biscuit can” approach to real estate.