#and librewolf

[noidretina]

Install Firefox, they said. It'll be fine, they said.

[twiggies-draws]

Interesting Update on Firefox

So Firefox has introduced Terms of Use.

Of note:

This was pointed out updated in the Privacy Policy:

We use technical data, language preference, and location to serve content and advertising on the Firefox New Tab page in the correct format (i.e. for mobile vs desktop), language, and relevant location. Mozilla collects technical and interaction data, such as the position, size, views and clicks on New Tab content or ads, to understand how people are interacting with our content and to personalize future content, including sponsored content. This data may be shared with our advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.

Additionally, you can have a look at their Github changes here, which shows something else interesting:

Mozilla has deleted the lines "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.

Another commit shows another removal of a line that notes that Firefox doesn't sell personal data

bedrock/firefox/templates/firefox/faq.html Old: Yep! The { -brand-name-firefox-browser } is free. Super free, actually. No hidden costs or anything. You don’t pay anything to use it, and we don’t sell your personal data. New: Yep! The { -brand-name-firefox-browser } is free. Super free, actually. No hidden costs or anything. You don’t pay anything to use it.

Scrolling further down, you can see a response to a comment questioning it

[wayfire-official]

Quote from the recent suggestion of adding a code of conduct to the librwolf project:

"Until then though, it should be clear: I'm very opposed to 'keeping things apolitical', because keeping things apolitical / trying to have a (false!) balance is taking sides and is political: it sides with the oppressors.

So LibreWolf should definitely be considered a 'very woke', and certainly quite political project, where queer- and transphobia, racism, ableism, antivax stuff, etc. are not tolerated. I'll gladly see a hundred racist people be pissed and leave if that makes only a single person from a disadvantaged / minority group feel safer."

Honestly really cool, might make the switch to librewolf, especially after the recent Firefox stuff.

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[definetly]

Mozilla Firefox has started sharing and selling your data and has now implemented a terms of service.

TL;DR: Mozilla has done the following to Firefox (edit)

They removed from their FAQ a statement that they'd never sell or collect your data. (So much for "never")

For the first time ever, they added a Terms of Use for Firefox which includes the ability to bar you from using Firefox for any reason by adding a Termination clause to their new Terms of Use.

Mozilla claims that there they're changing the language of 'selling of data' to avoid potential lawsuits due to "the broad and vague language of 'data selling'"; which could legitimately be true.

Alternatives

If you want a good alternative that doesn't do that, try out LibreWolf, a more private fork of Firefox, or LadyBird, which doesn't include clode from other browser.

Librewolf:

Ladybird

[leam1983]

On Firefox

They've just updated their Terms of Service as of March 1st, stripping away a few pro-privacy clauses and coyly dancing around the topic of integrating AI into the browser...

Look - the worst case is still Chrome and its more direct derivatives, like Edge. Firefox is extensively customizable, so whatever additional telemetry is collected is likely to be easily turned off in the Settings. So I wouldn't panic just yet.

If things do keep devolving, however, remember that LibreWolf exists - along with others like Brave - and don't forget to back up your passwords before making the switch, if you do decide to make it. LibreWolf, notably, isn't able to use Firefox Sync by default - for good reasons - and its onboard Password Manager is limited to local storage. LibreWolf's devs themselves recommend that you invest in a third-party password manager, for the sake of added safety.

[scaththefloof]

I am an absolute idiot

I use librewolf as my browser, and it is a browser highly focused on privacy. But I started seeing this pop up in my account sessions:

and google was alerting me that a Windows 10 pc was accessing my google account using firefox. and I was freaking out because I changed my password. And I still got it.

and then it finally hit me, privacy focused browser that is a fork of firefox. And it is from my city. So I signed out of all sessions and tried using only librewolf and it showed windows 10.

that's a cool feature of librewolf to scare the shit out of me. But also really I'm thinking it does it so that websites don't see you as an outcast. it makes you appear as a normal PC for privacy reasons. It's harder for websites to spy on what your Windows PC is doing, when your Windows PC is actually a Linux PC in disguise.

so thank you librewolf for scaring the shit out of me.

[posevr]

If you’re pissed at Mozilla

[daemonhxckergrrl]

every gentoo install i learn 10 things i had no idea about before lmao

[c3s6]

Yo librewolf devs PLEASE make embedded scratch games work. Look at this example. i cant play spam-a-pam anymore. Sound works but no visuals.

[recreationaldivorce]

it's always shocking to me whenever i see browser stats and it's all google chrome cause i have just been using firefox-based browsers my whole life lol? i don't remember why it's just always what i've used i always think of it as a v mainstream browser then i get taken aback by how much of a majority chrome has. same goes for whenever ppl discuss firefox like some "alternative" that needs to catch up with chrome. it's a fully featured web browser suitable for browsing the modern web? if it's missing some big features i've never noticed lol.

[tungledotedu]

^ good reasons to move to librewolf

[cripplelesbo]

no longer using firefox (i get booed off the stage)

[netscapenavigator-official]

I love how when you mention using a browser like Brave or Opera people are like, “that’s still Chrome 😡,” but when you say “I hate what Mozilla is doing. I wish there were alternatives,” people come at you with the “Use Waterfox! Use LibreWolf!” Like how about I shove my boot up your ass instead.

[librewolf-unofficial]

i love you woke snowflake libtard browser, 16 kisses on forhead minimum

aw thankies!! 16 licks on forhead for u ^-^

[nullapophenia]

im going 2 foam at the moooouuuuuuuuuuuthh

[hellsite-yano]