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Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data. (github.com)
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26136291

Mozilla has just deleted the following:

“Does Firefox sell your personal data?”

“Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "

Source: Lundke journal.

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 59 points 5 months ago (31 children)

So if you don’t want to use a chromium based browser but also care about privacy, you’re now fucked?

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (11 children)

I've seen a lot of advocating for Waterfox that I believe is a fork of FF without corporate shenanigans.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Does Waterfox (or any of the other forks people are proposing) have apps for iPad OS and Android, and account syncing to enable bookmarks, extensions, and tabs to transfer between devices?

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Waterfox and IronFox are both on Android. I'm not aware of any Firefox forks for iOS, but I've never really looked into it, either. All Firefox forks that I'm aware of are compatible with Firefox Sync. If you don't trust Mozilla's Firefox Sync service (and personally, I think it's fine: being end-to-end encrypted, Mozilla can't see what you have in Sync regardless), you can also self-host your own Firefox Sync server.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All Firefox forks that I’m aware of are compatible with Firefox Sync. If you don’t trust Mozilla’s Firefox Sync service (and personally, I think it’s fine: being end-to-end encrypted, Mozilla can’t see what you have in Sync regardless)

Ah thanks for this. That's really good to know. I was a little concerned that syncing your tabs in Firefox might be precisely one of those things that they're talking about with this new update.

you can also self-host your own Firefox Sync server

Oh, that's really cool! Do they have a Docker image for that? (Or even better, a Synology package?)

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

Oh, that's really cool! Do they have a Docker image for that?

Yep, a Docker image, instructions in the readme: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs#running-via-docker

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