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On Linux and Android. What are privacy oriented alternatives to Firefox now that it's no longer trustworthy?

The ability to sync between devices would be a huge bonus, even just on a local network.

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[-] land@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Use any fork of Firefox without the sync option.

[-] nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

Sorry I've been out of the loop, the encrypted sync isn't safe anymore? I'm using forks since a while but I rely heavily on sync

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 21 hours ago
[-] nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Yes, that's a great idea. I'm tempted to do that but my old NAS is hardly keeping up with all the services I've deployed on it so far

[-] land@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

Can’t trust Mozilla anymore with the data, so you’re better off finding alternatives. You can check out: xBrowserSync

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 21 hours ago

You can also just selfhost Firefox sync!

[-] land@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago

Oh, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the suggestion. It’s gonna be on my home server soon! ✅

[-] nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

You can check out: xBrowserSync

I wish, but at 10MB size limit, it won't do

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