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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by s38b35M5@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

The answer to "what is Firefox?" on Mozilla's FAQ page about its browser used to read:

The Firefox Browser is the only major browser backed by a not-for-profit that doesn’t sell your personal data to advertisers while helping you protect your personal information.

Now it just says:

The Firefox Browser, the only major browser backed by a not-for-profit, helps you protect your personal information.

In other words, Mozilla is no longer willing to commit to not selling your personal data to advertisers.

A related change was also highlighted by mozilla.org commenter jkaelin, who linked direct to the source code for that FAQ page. To answer the question, "is Firefox free?" Moz used to say:

Yep! The Firefox Browser is free. Super free, actually. No hidden costs or anything. You don’t pay anything to use it, and we don’t sell your personal data.

Now it simply reads:

Yep! The Firefox Browser is free. Super free, actually. No hidden costs or anything. You don’t pay anything to use it.

Again, a pledge to not sell people's data has disappeared. Varma insisted this is the result of the fluid definition of “sell” in the context of data sharing and privacy.

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Given that this is a privacy community, I would think that it would go without saying, But I just like to point out, We should probably disable Firefox sync if were using it. Log out of Firefox accounts in the browser. Even if you're not giving them telemetry they have all that data.

~~You can use the x bookmarks sync plugin, Don't make an account with them just use the un-logged in plugin to backup and restore your bookmarks between browsers. On the upside it'll even let you copy bookmarks from Firefox derivatives to Chrome derivatives.~~

Go down a comment or two and use Floccus, Just converted it's wonderful

at their location. However the want it

[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 week ago

Alternative to FF Sync?

I Iove this shit. Send to devices, multiple devices, bookmarks, passwords..

[-] ookiiBoy 11 points 1 week ago

Xbrowsersync for bookmark syncing. Works across browsers. A real password Manager, like Bitwarden, for passwords.

[-] moonlight@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

I think the killer feature of ff sync is being able to see open tabs on other devices. Is there any other way to achieve that?

[-] ookiiBoy 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Oooh that's tasty, guess I'll be adding that to my Configs soon.

[-] ookiiBoy 2 points 1 week ago

Hmm not sure. It's not something I've ever used. Maybe theres something for that.

Though I seem to remember one could host their own sync server?

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