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Is Firefox still the recommended browser of choice here? (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 days ago by Mothra@mander.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Asking after the privacy debacle and manifest. I'm not keeping up closely, but iirc Firefox is the browser recommended because of Ublock. After the privacy data issue I've noticed broken trust from Firefox users, recommendations in favor of switching browsers, and predictions saying Firefox is going downhill fast and that their forks won't be maintained for much longer.

So I'm here asking the seasoned sailors' thoughts, aye. Is this just a storm passing by or are you really considering jumping ship?

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[-] Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

To be fair nobody asked Mozilla to serve a stupid and detached statement without contextualizing what they meant or try to achieve.

[Edit] it feels like they're asking for the outrage. You can't just drop assurances of not selling data without explaining if your crowd is privacy aware. You can't take broad licenses from your users if you don't explain for what they are for. Having plaintext comment next to the lawyer speak would have fixed all that and none of this had to be this shitty. [/Edit]

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social -4 points 2 days ago

And this is why I assume no-one read the articles; because they did explain themselves.

[-] Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

It's still in the current version of the TOS without a direct explanation which can be found anywhere close to it. This is plain bad from a communication stand point.