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Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox | Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a ‘Terms of Use’ policy — a first for the iconic open source web browser.

This official Terms of Use will, Mozilla argues, offer users ‘more transparency’ over their ‘rights and permissions’ as they use Firefox to browse the information superhighway — as well well as Mozilla’s “rights” to help them do it, as this excerpt makes clear:

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet.

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice (aka privacy policy). This adds a crop of cushy caveats to cover the company’s planned AI chatbot integrations, cloud-based service features, and more ads and sponsored content on Firefox New Tab page.

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[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

Yeesh. So what's an alternative?

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 22 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm very happy with librewolf on desktop and ironfox on mobile

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

Same.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 4 points 9 hours ago

LibreWolf, or if you can tolerate some breakage, PaleMoon or Basilisk (I say 'if you can tolerate some breakage' because Goanna is hard-forked from old ESR code, and PaleMoon and Basilisk are both Goanna-based).

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

As I understand it, these changes don't affect browsers that use FF as a base, so Zen Browser might not be affected.

I've been trying it out this week, and it's good. And can still use all the FF extensions.

https://zen-browser.app/

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago

To add to the list:

Mullvad browser (pc only) (removes blobs,proprietary crap, telemetry, and is otherwise hardened and was developed in partnership with the tor org. Some prefs are fine to change but you're best off by leaving as is.

Tor browser - nuff said. If you want anonymity use this. Don't change any prefs.

Arkenfox has a nodded user.is file you can simply drop into your current ff profile dir. It includes many hidden prefs and settings and allows you to customize for your needs/threat model.

Arkenfox's mods are used by other privacy friendly browsers. As are some tor mods.

If you can find your way around about:config and don't mind some learning, you can achieve most of the results of hardened broswers.

There are guides to further harden your ff. Search for Hardened Firefox.

[–] breadguy@fedia.io 1 points 9 hours ago

waterfox