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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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I'm so fucking tired of feeling like I'm in an adversarial relationship with everything. I'm so tired and I'm just trying to exist without everything that I do needing to be scraped and monetized.
That's my sentiment. Everything is monetized and it's increasingly normalized, each successive generation knowing less and less that it could be otherwise
The sad part is you can’t win. moving to an alternate and more niche browser that is actually privacy focused like tor browser or the upcoming ladybird means you are far more susceptible to google and metas fingerprinting bullshit
Privacy is dead, advertising fucks killed it
One more thing We should stop Fan Boying and defending what Mozzila did is good. Also, Fuck you Mozzila. I don't care what reason do you need this for but I only switched to Firefox for privacy. Every user of Firefox use it for Privacy. If you can't understand it then fuck you. Also Proton CEO fuck you. I don't understand why people need more money when they already have a good life.
Check out the tor browser or mullvad browser. They go above and beyond to protect privacy.
Using other Firefox Fork is not my point. I don't want to see Mozzilla and Proton go full evil for profit sake like Google.
Mozilla was never your freind
I understand you're upset. Maybe even feel betrayed.
We regain and build up our privacy through other avenues now.
It doesn't have an android build though...
Tor browser definitely has an Android build. They even provide the apk
Someone explain why this is so bad like people make it out to be? I've seen many posts of people panicking. I just wonder if the panick is justified.
Based on that wording they can take any data you enter on a website and use it.
This means that...
...forum posts...
...personal details...
...banking information...
...pictures...
...passwords...
...can be collected and used.
This is an EXTREMELY broad blanket policy, and is an absolute insult to their previous work with privacy.
Yes that does seem very unwanted. Thanks for explaining.
They will likely use or sell your browser activity for ai training and advertising.
That seems to break DSGVO. Gonna have to write a mail to them every day, as well as inform your countries dsgvo person.
It's a dick move for sure, but how exactly does it "break" GDPR?
Probably by collecting people's personal information that they would enter into web forms during the course of normal doing business on the internet. If you are opening a bank account or paying taxes online why should Firefox be allowed to collect your name, address, and birthdate?