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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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[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 33 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Well, we had a good run lads, enshitification is here.

Any recommendations for open source alternatives that are convenient and also have an android app supporting ublock origin.

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Not really open source, but want to mention it anyways. Take a look at the Norwegian browser Vivaldi. I made the switch recently and am really happy with it. Their privacy policy seems good, and they have a clear no AI stance. Their android browser is by far the best android browser from a UX standpoint in my opinion.

I might be biased as a Norwegian 😉

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I'll +1 Vivaldi - great tool with (mostly) useful features

Not sure how it will do with the Chrome / Chromium v3 addon API thingie - just not looked into that at all. Hope it's not relevant

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Mange tak! 😁

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 26 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

librewolf on pc and ironfox on android. both forks of firefox.

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

+1 for LibreWolf. Dialy driver and not looking back.

Ice Raven on Android.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

This is my pair as well

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Why IronFox over fennec?

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

More privacy related defaults. Essentially the about:config is more or less filled out for you on Ironfox.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Danke danke

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Librewolf, Servo looks promising but is very far off and just an engine I think? Idk I keep looking at it and want it.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Servo isn't a full browser, it's a tech testbed for Mozilla to test out their various rewritten Rust components. I wish they would have promoted it to full browser status, but I think intention was always to take pieces of Servo as they were completed and drop them into Firefox.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, maybe I can't read but I didnt find that info on their page.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Hmm seems like it's only partially true these days. Looking at their webpage they have a screenshot of their Wikipedia entry (why they didn't just link to it I have no idea) that provides some more up to date info. It was a testbed and they mention a project Quantum where the tech was added into Firefox's Gecko engine. In 2020 Mozilla laid off all their Servo devs and handed the project over to Linux Foundation Europe. It seems like since then they've reenvisioned the project as an embeddable rendering engine similar to WebKit or V8.

Edit: Further details available on the Wikipedia page. In particular this last paragraph seems highly relevant:

In January 2023, the Servo project announced that new external funding had enabled a team of developers to reactivate the project.[23] The initial roadmap focused on selecting one of the two existing layout engines for further development, followed by working towards basic CSS2 conformance.[24] In February 2024, at FOSDEM 2024, the Servo Project team outlined their plans for a 'reboot' of Servo.[25]

It seems like the 'reboot' is focused on turning it into a competitor for WebKit/V8. Looking at the projects roadmap it seems there are currently no plans in the works to make it a proper standalone browser.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Oh, well thank you for the info. I guess its a good thing Librewolf already exists.

[–] breadguy@fedia.io 0 points 8 hours ago

Waterfox