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I was examining the DNS queries of the new Grok AI app on iOS. I observed that it sends requests to "featureassets.org", which OpenAI lists as one of their own domains. This caught my attention, given the rivalry between these two entities.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9247338-network-recommendations-for-chatgpt-errors-on-web-and-apps

"OpenAI uses the below domains. Please make sure that they are not blocked in your company network by your IT team -> and that any web/URL filtering is not responding with unexpected content.

- featureassets.org "

I am perplexed by Mozilla's mindbending word games about privacy of the Firefox browser. They claim that

"Your privacy comes first As the internet grows and changes, Firefox continues to focus on your right to privacy — we call it the Personal Data Promise: Take less. Keep it safe. No secrets. Your data, your web activity, your life online is protected with Firefox."

"At Mozilla, we believe that privacy is fundamental to a healthy internet."

While this is all good they have a lot of telemetry going on in the background.

"Interaction data: Firefox sends data about your interactions with Firefox to us (such as number of open tabs and windows; number of webpages visited; number and type of installed Firefox Add-ons; and session length) and Firefox features offered by Mozilla or our partners (such as interaction with Firefox search features and search partner referrals)."

Please see the rest here.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

How can we really call this a private browser or even privacy-friendly browser while they are constantly hogging user data.