Should I use firefox sync in librewolf, Is it private enough? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by checksout@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Following video of thelinuxexperiment and all the news against mozilla.
I finally switched to librewolf completely.
I exported and imported all kind of data too.

But I want to use ffsync only to keep my mobile (android) in sync with my pc (want to sync history also so flocuss etc will not work)
So I want to enable ffsync in librewolf

I have seen faq but as mozilla recently introduced their terms of usage (and all the hate against it)
Is it still private enough to use ffsync? what can be downsides?

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[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 17 points 2 weeks ago

You can self-host Firefox sync

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Last time I heard about the possibility it seemed a bit hacky, did it get easier by now?

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

No idea - this is my firefox sync NixOS config, in its entirety:

  age.secrets.ffsync.rekeyFile = secrets.ffsync;
  services.firefox-syncserver = {
    enable = true;
    secrets = config.age.secrets.ffsync.path;
    settings.hostname = "localhost";

    singleNode = {
      enable = true;
      hostname = "0.0.0.0";
      capacity = 2;
    };
  };

[-] tiz@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if it still needs account management on Mozilla server or on your own. May I?

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeaaaaaaahh the auth thing is really, really complicated to selfhost. There's a docker project out there that apparently makes it possible, but.... No idea. FOr the time being I still use FF's auth - that's still an improvement though: Mozilla knows that I am logging in / from what kind of device, but not the content or amount of what I sync.

[-] krigo666@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Have a look at YunoHost.

[-] checksout@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Can I self host it from termux for localhost only?? Without need of domain and other resources??

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

Probably... I mean, I'd at least start it in a systemd service, but sure, you don't need a domain.

But of course your mobile won't be able to access that domain outside your network

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