Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have been advised it’s not a fork but a reconfig of default firefox, therefore it would technically be subject to the same ToS.

  source

  • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Depending on how the requirement to accept the ToS is implemented, a config file might be able to disable it and any features that depend on it.

    source

    • ded@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I doubt implementation of terms will be optional. It’s also possible to disable Tor in TBB

      source

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I doubt implementation of terms will be optional.

        You are all up and down these comments repeating this statement.

        Why?

        How exactly has Mozilla handled changes like this before that leads you to this conclusion? Do you have anything to back this up other than your own dogged insistence?

        Surely there must be something I’m missing for you to be so adamant on this point. Please enlighten me, because to my knowledge about how all this works and has worked in the past this just seems like baseless fearmongering to me.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Six.

        source
  • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah, thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression it didn’t call out to mozilla servers if you didn’t enable sync.

    I guess Mullvad would be the next popular browser yeah?

    source

    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      afaict Mullvad browser doesn’t support plugins which - it does some adblock by default (more ifyou have the VPN) and so on but i gots to have my DarkViewer so it’s a sometimes browser for me atm.

      source

      • WrittenInRed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It does work with Firefox plugins, there just isn’t a button to open the extension “store” in the extensions settings page like stock Firefox has. You can add them by manually going to the url though, it’s just recommended that you don’t since that increases your risk of adding a malicious plugin or being fingerprinted, etc. I still added a few plugins that I really dislike not having though, like a password manager and darkreader, just because I valued the convenience slightly more than the added security.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • ded@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In fact the only way to completely stop “phoning home” in Firefox is to block connections (via for example privoxy).

      source

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What? Some proof here please. Firefox is 100% open source. You can audit the entire code for this.

        It’s not like chromium with the pre-compiled binary blob in the middle provided by google.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
• MellowYellow13@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How good is mullvad browser?

  source