Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
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Mozilla posted an update:
Update at 10:20 pm ET: Mozilla has since announced a change to the license language to address user complaints. It now says, "You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content."
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It could just be styled the old way
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It is actively developed . They didn’t just kept the old version. They forked it and improving and fixing it.
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Why they need users ? If they operate Firefox by themselves why they not start paying for power usage for hosting Firefox on my machine.
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This whole thing does not matter if you are living in the US anyway become of the Third-party doctrine that holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties have "no reasonable expectation of privacy in that information.
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Between the fact I've been using a date picker for ages in Firefox, the fact dates and times are hard, and the title of the issue that's clearly a zombie issue. I'm surprised they were able to close it at all.
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Is friends on GitHub?
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Yeah, the standards of the internet are just piled on top of each other. Rendering code and whatnot is the easy part. Keeping up with the standards is the hard part (or so I have read).
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Been using it all day now and yeah, it’s very smooth sailing. The tweaks I made basically involved removing fingerprinting protection, which I saw people online deride as “defeating the entire purpose of Librewolf”. Well, not true anymore.
I just want manifest v3 and to not have to consent to ToS agreements implicitly allowing some suspicious organisation to harvest and sell literally any keypress I enter into the browser, which has become the de facto cross platform way to do almost everything.
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I don't get how something is allowed to be labeled "free" when the terms of usage make you barter your data.
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I'm sorry, but first of all Mozilla actually employs developers. And the development process isn't just the developers' salaries. There's R&D, QA, management, administration, accounting. All of these cost money, and this isn't even touching on the expenses associated with offices (electricity, general upkeep, maintenance).
Then there's the costs associated with packaging the binaries, hosting the binaries, bandwidth...
Even if you're giving everyone a miser's pay, and getting cheaper unreliable hosting, it adds up
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They have also had this issue open for 20 years.
And this amounts to just allowing the user to specify a different directory for Firefox on Linux (~/.mozilla is terrible).
Frankly unacceptable.
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Don't forget the CEO's worst crime: he's the inventor of javascript
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You said android device, they said browser. You're not being very clear about what your point is. I have Firefox on my Android phone.
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I don't like this but it's gonna take more for me to switch. I am very happy with Firefox for my use-case and workflow it works really well. However I think they are shooting themselves in the foot by starting to take away some of the most crucial advantages with Firefox compared to Chrome. I mean if both are awful for privacy then why use Firefox?
