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

submitted 1 week 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] 71 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Come on Mozilla, what the fuck are you guys doing? You don't have the luxury of monopoly and you're going to alienate those few diehard fans who stick with Firefox because alternatives are shit and they all run Chromium even if they aren't.

Ladybird needs to materialize fast before it's too late.

I'd go Waterfox, but I really like the on-machine translation in Firefox that Waterfox doesn't have it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (13 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

But has no mobile version effectively making it useless.

[–] socialmedia 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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] 4 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

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

I need sync...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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