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Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by farcaster@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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From the new terms:

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.

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[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Come on Mozilla, what the fuck are you guys doing? You don't have the luxury of monopoly and you're going to alienate those few diehard fans who stick with Firefox because alternatives are shit and they all run Chromium even if they aren't.

Ladybird needs to materialize fast before it's too late.

I'd go Waterfox, but I really like the on-machine translation in Firefox that Waterfox doesn't have it.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

LibreWolf has the on-machine translation and when you disable some of the hardcore privacy defaults it is a quite good Firefox replacement.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why are none of these Firefox alternatives in my distro's repository?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bad distro? They are in mine 🤷‍♂️

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Well, it's Kubuntu, so yeah, I guess.

But it's a popular bad distro, so that's still a problem for a lot of people.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nix, Guix, and Flatpak have Librewolf so you can use one of them

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's my biggest problem with LibreWolf: the defaults are waay too strict and disable/break so many things

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But has no mobile version effectively making it useless.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firefox Desktop doesn't have a mobile version, they just call an entirely separate codebase for the mobile version Firefox as well. If you want a mobile alternative there is Fennec.

[–] socialmedia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Just use something else on mobile. I use mull (until it becomes insecure because I think they stopped working on it) and fennec.

Fennec supports extensions and syncing so it should be okay for most use cases.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

IronFox is a fork of Mull when you decide it's time.

[–] usernameusername@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

please consider switching to ironfox, it's a mull fork

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I need sync...

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

Fennec and Librewolf support logging into a Firefox account and thus sync. However, that obviously partially brings you back to the Mozilla problem...

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

i think there should be a global switch that enables firefox to send data to third parties, and it should be disabled by default; then firefox would be fine.