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Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bad distro? They are in mine 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But has no mobile version effectively making it useless.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I need sync...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

https://www.xbrowsersync.org/

You can selfhost it too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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.