A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy
Rules:
Soon the only private option left will be to curl the website, read the html and picture it in my head.
stallman was right
Are there any specifics about this? It all seems fairly theoretical to me. What do they [want to] do that contradicts "doesn't sell your personal data" within the context of the fluid definition of "sell"? Do they sell my personal data or don't they? What definitions of "sell" are relevant here?
It's all sounding a bit Bill Clinton to me: "it depends on your definition of 'is'."
One thing to keep in mind is thar mozilla is now an ad company and can use this data itself for whatever advertising it wants to sell, so they dont even need a third party they can just sell targeted ads directly to companies while not technically "sharing" the info they gather to anyone.
Basically, why sell the data to other people when you can profit from using it directly?
The ambiguity is the smoking gun.
Now that Mozilla's fucked. What's the next option that's not Chromium?
Librewolf, degoogled chromium, private windows. If you don't want your data to be sold, don't give out your data.
It do be a slippery slope though
Disable tor in tor browser.
Ladybird in a few years, forks of Firefox for now.
IceCat
That isn't ready for common use by most people until there they offer binaries for easy installation.
In Firefox, type about:config in address bar, search for "sponsored" and "telemetry" and set all the paremeters you see from TRUE to FALSE. Done.
How can ome do this on mobile? Doesn't run search on the terms or load a config page.
Or use Waterfox which does most of this by default
I like waterfox but the dev of waterfox made a deal with an advertising corp, eventually it fell apart but there was a solid few years where users left waterfox.
oh cheers for the heads up. Hadn't heard that!
No worries. I jumped back on once I heard that the company backed out but I am cautious as the dev said some stuff "waterfox was never a privacy browser" and other shameful arguments to counter the unhappy community that his browser had fostered. Either way keep an ear to the ground.
You misspelled LibreWolf.
hahah both are good
We shouldn't have to do workarounds like that in the first place. It's getting to be like the Stockholm syndrome people have about Windows abuses. I didn't put up that shit, and I'm not gonna put up with this either.