• Bali
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    92 months ago

    Very sustainable move to sustain million dollar paycheck for the CEO. Bravo! 🤢

  • Vik
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    202 months ago

    Mozilla just coming out with hit after hit.

    Can we start a petition to stipulate that the ownership should move from Mozilla to the Linux Foundation, just as a meme and to see where it gets to?

    • Vik
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      Here’s an interesting excerpt:

      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.

      E: fwiw, Firefox built from source is exempt from these terms of use. Forks are also a great option but I wonder if Linux distros will approach this accordingly.

      E2: apparently these ToU only apply when using their chatbot.

      E3: I think I misunderstood some conversations surrounding the topic for E2

      • mesa
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        22 months ago

        Is there a good guide to doing this yourself? I tried many years ago but didnt get very far.

        • Vik
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          42 months ago

          Building firefox from source? I’ve never really investigated this but would be happy to learn with you when I get a moment.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Where do you see this? It applies to bookmarks too so Firefox Sync (which, surprise, is not E2E encrypted).

        Maybe all their AI. And what about their new ads company?

        • ᥫ᭡ 𐑖ミꪜᴵ𝔦 ᥫ᭡
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          12 months ago

          first of all, Firefox sync is e2ee, open source, and you can selfhost it

          Securing your data with Sync involves creating a unique password, which plays a crucial role in encrypting your data for complete privacy. This encryption is end-to-end: your data is encrypted before it ever leaves your browser and can only be decrypted by another instance of Firefox. Once your data reaches a Mozilla-operated server for storage, it’s already in an encrypted state

          what about their new ads company?

          Mozilla thinks that they CANNOT win the war against the Advertising industry (that includes Google, and other tech giants), to them it’s pointless to go against the tide, this is why they built Privacy preserving attribution… which ironically just gives more data to advertisers… And this is me giving them the benefit of doubt…

      • ᥫ᭡ 𐑖ミꪜᴵ𝔦 ᥫ᭡
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        62 months ago

        If your terms of service aren’t enforced across the board, it’s because they’re shady to begin with… If technical users can opt out, so should non technical users