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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m looking into Firefox alternatives as I wanna see what’s available. Being Norwegian, Vivaldi seems like a good choice to replace Firefox on desktop and Safari on iOS. Tried it for a night and it works pretty good. I do however have reservations about it being based on Chromium.

How much power does Google actually have over Vivaldi? And would it actually matter for my quest for degoogling myself?

In case anyone’s wondering. I’m also looking into LibreWolf.

Edit: Rewrote the start as people got too hung up on Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I dunno how it affects forks, but considering Google’s TOS doesn’t seem to affect other Chromium projects that much. I doubt it’s a big of a deal for FF forks.

Hell, I’m 99% sure I’m overreacting about Mozilla’s working to begin with. It just made me want to explore alternatives.

Here’s the quote I’m talking about(it has since been changed)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Whaaaat? That sounds extremely broad. I need to learn more about it.

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

Isn't the narrowing part the not bold bit, that specifically says it's about your use of Firefox? As in you save bookmarks which are synced via Firefox servers. It needs to be a worldwide license in order to allow them to store that data on their CDN. It needs to be royalty-free because that it saying you can't ask Firefox for money because they have your data. Non-exclusive is them saying they aren't claiming you can't also give the right to others.

I would be less concerned about the part in bold and much more concerned about what they are allowed to do with that data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

That’s exactly what I thought and granted so did a lot of people too.

Not the end of the world, but made me want to look at alternatives at least.