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“Profit” has such a broad definition…
Here's the actual privacy policy of an actual Mozilla product. Instead of being dry like privacy policies typically are, this one is practically dripping with malicious compliance.
Your Privacy Rights. In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to...
Request to Opt-Out of Certain Processing Activities including, as applicable, if we process your personal information for “targeted advertising” (as “targeted advertising” is defined by applicable privacy laws), if we “sell” your personal information (as “sell” is defined by applicable privacy laws), or if we engage in “profiling” in furtherance of certain “decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects” concerning you (as such terms are defined by applicable privacy laws)
It's no longer a question of if Mozilla targets you, sells your data, or profiles you. It's a question of when, and how abusively.
...We “sell” and “share” your personal information to provide you with “cross-context behavioral advertising” about Fakespot’s products and services.
Again, no scare quotes are needed here. They sell your data. I don't know what "cross-context behavioral advertising" is exactly, but I'm not excited to find out.
There are more privacy-respecting forks of Firefox. Might be time to move to one of those. Librewolf springs to mind.
But they are dependent on the continued existence of Firefox, so it's still concerning when Mozilla alienates their users.
It is concerning - because Firefox barely has enough users to sustain it.
If no one takes on the development of Gecko, we’re in the soup. It’s the only alternative to blink and WebKit. Tor relies on it .
It is concerning - because Firefox barely has enough users to sustain it.
Er... if you think Mozilla is sustained by its users then I have some bad news for you. Or am I misunderstanding you?
Mozilla is funded by google to promote the search . But how much longer are they gonna pay if no one uses it ?
If you read in between the lines, Mozilla is also funded by google as technical competition to chrome so that governments dont break them up with anti-monopoly busting case.
capitalism truly drives competition and innovation...
is there something like this on android? is mullvad also good?
I had to do a little digging but it seems that Mull has a spiritual successor in the form of ironfox for android. So far its legitimately good, just add the repository to your fdroid Link to repo:
fdroidrepos://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=C5E291B5A571F9C8CD9A9799C2C94E02EC9703948893F2CA756D67B94204F904
Fennec
i found it on fdroid but not on the play store. it looks like firefox exactly, what are the main differences?
Read the description in fdroid lol
I so wanted to overlook all the weird shit Mozilla has been doing up to now, even regained a little faith when they finally started introducing new cool features the users actually wanted in Firefox after what has felt like years, but this move is so fundamentally fucked up I can't believe it.
Guess I'll stay on the lookout for a browser switch
How do you install Ironfox on Android? You just side load the APK?
Should be able to install it via Obtanium using https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
There also seems to be a f-droid repo.
You can't side load it normally?
You can, grab the release from github. But let's be real, you won't remember to update it manually
Corps are for profit, and Mozilla is a Corp... Really sad times indeed.
That's worrying...
— Google, 2018, colourised
Dude, Lemmy users are so annoying sometimes. One little from a tech corporation, and then I see the same repeated news in 5 different communities. Along with all the US-centric posts.
All of this? Just for a quick fix for legal purposes!
Tactical.
I'm a happy Brave user. I love the fact that you don't have to sign up for an account just to sync stuff.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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