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Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon. > You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you **upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information** to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/ **Update:** See below in the thread for their clarification.
    • Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      55 minutes ago

      Yes, but even more important to avoid sync with an Mozilla account, if you need the sync function (maybe Filen?) (Vivaldi has an own sync EE2E)

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Or why do they have a world wide right for anything entered into Firefox.

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
      13·
      3 hours ago

      This doesn’t make any sense to me either. Why do they need a license for what you type into Firefox if that data never gets shared with Mozilla?

      I don’t know a single application that you need to give a license to so they can handle your data locally.

    • rtxn@lemmy.world
      142·
      5 hours ago

      We’ve seen a little confusion about the language

      Tastes like “I’m sorry you feel that way”

      The privacy notice document lists how each data type is used. It includes in-browser ads on the new tab page, AI chatbots, and “to market our services”.

      • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        4 hours ago

        I’m glad I use a fork, even if it much more unstable. Kind of want servo to become stable and someone to make a browser based on that.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 hours ago

          Kind of want servo to become stable and someone to make a browser based on that.

          Maybe that’s why Mozilla quit contributing to it.

        • poVoq@slrpnk.net
          1·
          1 hour ago

          Igalia is currently working hard on making it easy to use Servo as an embeddable browser engine similar to how Chromium can be used.

          The problems of doing that with Gecko, the browser engine that powers Firefox, is main reason why there are so few alternative browsers based on it.

          • Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
            1·
            36 minutes ago

            Also because Blink is the best and most advanced engine. The problem of Chromium is only that it need to gut out the Google APIs before it is a valid base for an browser. Vivaldi does it, also degoogled Chromium and even EDGE (but in change filling it with a ton of M$ tracking APIs). The only alternative (Linux only) is the Konqueror Browser with the Grandfather of Blink, KHTML by KDE (German company).

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    382·
    5 hours ago

    God dammit, and just as Google starts enforcing manifest 3. Maybe it’s time to stop doing this internet thing altogether. It had a pretty nice run but right now it’s just a propaganda and compliance tool…

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      13 minutes ago

      Bring back ham radios.

      Ah shit I’m too introverted to use my voice…

      Data packets through radio?

      Btw: Rattlegram is a Android/iOS app that can convert text to audio, which you can then play over a ham radio. You can use encryption before you paste the ciphertext into Rattlegram. (Encryption over radio is illegal in many jurisdictions tho… 🏴‍☠️)

    • over_clox@lemmy.world
      93·
      5 hours ago

      From my understanding, they’re pushing this shit on March 14th.

      π

      Also our next lunar eclipse, at least in the USA.

    • kixik@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 hours ago

      do you mean you use a more privacy oriented fork like Librewolf, or instead some chrome/chromium derivative or fork?

      • Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
        1·
        15 minutes ago

        Yes, but also non existent US privacy policy. There the users are simply raw material for the benefit of large corporations and user rights an incomprehensible communist phrase, to make America great again. The EU at least put limits to these abuses.

    • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
      18·
      5 hours ago

      That website actually promotes Firefox, you know. Not sure it fits this thread.

    • Auster@thebrainbin.org
      4·
      4 hours ago

      If you’re sticking to Firefox-based browsers, Waterfox seems to be the fork closest to Firefox without being controlled by Mozilla.

    • Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
      22·
      4 hours ago

      I use Vivaldi (EU), it has an inbuild adblocker. In chromium browsers Mv3 means that Mv2 Extensions are eliminated from the Chrome Store in June this Year. Mv3 adblockers are still there, there is uBO light (same as uBO, but without element picker) and Adblock Plus, which is pretty equivalent to uBO. The inbuild ad/trackerblocker (customizable with own filterlists or those from uBO, DDG, AdBlock plus and others) in Vivaldi isn’t affected by Mv3 and pretty effective (>99% in the test). In extensions other than those related to security and privacy, it’s irrelevant for the user if they are Mv2 or Mv3 and mostly redundant in Vivaldi.

      If you prefer Gecko browsers, the only one from the EU is the Mullvad Browser (Sweden), which can still use uBO, but also Gecko Browser will not support Mv2 all eternity because the related different cookie management used by most webpages with Google APIs, also apart from the will of the devs to continue developing MV2 for a minority engine, such as Gecko (~ 4% Market Share).