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Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 13 hours ago by farcaster to c/[email protected]

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From the new terms:

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.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

LibreWolf has the on-machine translation and when you disable some of the hardcore privacy defaults it is a quite good Firefox replacement.

[–] grue 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Why are none of these Firefox alternatives in my distro's repository?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Nix, Guix, and Flatpak have Librewolf so you can use one of them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Bad distro? They are in mine 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] -4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

But has no mobile version effectively making it useless.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Firefox Desktop doesn't have a mobile version, they just call an entirely separate codebase for the mobile version Firefox as well. If you want a mobile alternative there is Fennec.

[–] socialmedia 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

Just use something else on mobile. I use mull (until it becomes insecure because I think they stopped working on it) and fennec.

Fennec supports extensions and syncing so it should be okay for most use cases.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

IronFox is a fork of Mull when you decide it's time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

please consider switching to ironfox, it's a mull fork

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I need sync...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

https://www.xbrowsersync.org/

You can selfhost it too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Fennec and Librewolf support logging into a Firefox account and thus sync. However, that obviously partially brings you back to the Mozilla problem...