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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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[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 65 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Firefox is open-source. Certainly, you're out of options in terms of "name-brand" browsers, but there's a number of Firefox forks. On desktop, LibreWolf is the closest thing to mainline and on Android, IronFox is the equivalent.

If you want something more than just "Firefox minus the branding and tracking", some of the deeper forks are Zen Browser and Floorp.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What happened to Fennec and PaleMoon? Are they no bueno these days?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can't speak to PaleMoon, but I use Fennec on my phone. My understanding is that they try to track as closely as they can to Firefox main, but with enough changes to be a separate thing.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've heard nothing negative about PaleMoon either, as far as privacy. I do think it's a bit tougher to recommend to the average user due to its single-process architecture.

The memory footprint is great, but everybody is kind of used to the performance and stability gains from multi-process browsers. I would feel weird recommending somebody coming off Firefox jump to PaleMoon.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I feel weird recommending any Firefox fork other than Iceweasel/Fennec (name change only, pretty much) or Tor/Mullvad Browser. Everything else runs a risk of poor maintenance, which could lead to security vulnerabilities.

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