Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
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What? Some proof here please. Firefox is 100% open source. You can audit the entire code for this.
It's not like chromium with the pre-compiled binary blob in the middle provided by google.
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They can't just promise they "never will" and then get rid of it. People who used the service under the original agreement should still be able to claim that benefit since it was promising to never sell it.
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lolololol
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Several questions:
- How are they getting our data?
- What is the nature of the data?
- Can we do anything in about:config?
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Do you have any sources about anonymized data being easy to de-anonymize? I've been hearing a lot of conflicting stuff regarding the policy change so I wanna make sure the information I'm getting is accurate. But yeah if Firefox implements more anti consumer policies like this I will probably be jumping ship.
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Is librewolf a good alternative? Most plugins seem compatible
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I remember a time when Google wrote "Don't be evil" all over their stuff.....
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Gahhhh this is horrible
I spent some time switching to Librewolf this morning but at the end of the day, it having Firefox as the upstream means it’s all fragile and tenuous anyway
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current acting CEO of Mozilla is Laura Chambers. An Australian native and has quite...interesting work history.
It's weird isn't it? how these same names keep coming up again and again...
Ebay, Paypal, Airbnb.
she would have likely worked with Thiel and Musk during her time there. I wonder if there's any lingering commitment there?
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I feel a little vindicated. I started using Firefox basically when it was first released. I migrated away from it after several years because I simply didn't like the direction that Mozilla was taking it. Decades later I see them struggling down the same inevitable path I figured they'd always head down from the beginning.
Firefox bros used to get ultra pissed at me for shitting on their browser because I just knew Mozilla would eventually fuck it all up. And here we are.
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Brave is fine with for iOS with build in adblocker
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I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. I told ya so? I was smarter than everyone else and figured it out first?
FF has been one of the better full-featured browsers with generous amount of add-ons/plugins. There was no reason not to use it vs some less functional browser or some corporate data miner like Chrome. It still is, however some alternatives are catching up. Time will tell how it all shakes out as far as the battle between functionality, privacy, ad- and tracking-blockers, and people willing to build and maintain free browsers and plugins.
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There is a Wikipedia article about what I mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification
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Thanks I'll read up on it
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Son of a bitch I just got back into Firefox.
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You can run your own sync server in Docker.
