Anything you say or do on Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one will not be provided for you because capitalism is working exactly as designed.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-terms-of-use/
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@[email protected] deleted the app and Thunderbird
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Has anyone successfully run their own FF sync server? I have tried twice recently with no success.@[email protected] Grrr, I just switched over to Firefox after realizing how crappy Chrome is for privacy/ads. 😡
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Does that mean, if i type something into a mask on an encrypted website (https), that Mozilla can read it?@[email protected] 🤷♂️
At least they’re open source so you should be able to see exactly what information is being collected if you dive into the code.
@[email protected] I have a question here, does this also apply to Firefox forks? (I’m affraid the answer is yes…)
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@[email protected] @[email protected] No, they can’t dictate terms of use for forks without violating their own open source license.
No because they free to, and will remove the stupid TOS.
@Hache @aral this doesn’t apply to us, we have our own privacy policy. But bear in mind if you use a Mozilla account/sync you still have to know the terms for those services.
Just from a cursory glance it doesn’t seem there’s anything egregious with the terms of use or privacy policy update - is there anything specific that sticks out? Legally companies have to provide a privacy policy; terms of use aren’t necessary but just seems to state what is already the case.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I do note:
> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.
That seems incredibly broad, am I misunderstanding where this applies? Surely not just a blanket statement?
I just discovered a Firefox fork called Floorp. It’s being developed in Japan and their privacy policy is very good. Check em out!
@[email protected] has anyone used the #TheOnionRouter aka tor browser? @[email protected] rates it good for privacy.
It’s very slow, and many websites block TOR users.
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@[email protected] My email to you preceded my seeing this, but yeah, in the same vein of questioning…@[email protected] Another good reminder that just because something is lead by a non-profit does not mean it has inherent ethics or the interests of its consumers in mind
@[email protected] * A not-for-profit that owns a half-a-billion dollar a year for-profit that gets its half-a-billion dollars a year from Google.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] care to explain?@[email protected] luckily one has a choice… to switch what theyre using.
one choice might be the tor browser. which is based on ff, lets you import your bookmarks (password import is a bit problematic…) and supports the extensions without that the web would be unbareable.
@[email protected] I’ve been noodling on privacy-oriented and non-Chromium options other than FF for a while, and feel a bit hamstrung.
Really rather avoid Brave for not wanting to support that CEO, and that doesn’t leave much.
The hope that I can also sync a browser between my iPhone app and Windows laptop seemingly just makes it totally unattainable.
Wide open to other recommendations.
Donate or support an open source engine so we can leave these baddies behind us https://servo.org/ it was originally a mozilla project but is now its own. I have been watching it for a year and they have made a significant amount of progress but still a lot more to go.
Guess they have to pay the CEO’s $7m salary somehow.
@[email protected] Waht’s about Brave as an alternative?
@[email protected] This is Brave: https://basicattentiontoken.org/
@[email protected] Sorry, meant the Brave Browser https://brave.com/
@[email protected] So did I.
