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How trustworthy is Mozilla Firefox with user accounts and data? (self.firefox)

submitted 2 years ago by sysadmin to c/[email protected]

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I want to sync things between 2 computers and apparently the only way to do this is to login to Firefox. Preferably I want to avoid tracking and stuff but sometimes it’s just a bit inconvenient. Is Mozilla trustworthy in terms of privacy with logging in, like data sales, especially data breach with passwords?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I trust personally trust them but if you don't, you can self host the sync server if I'm not mistaken.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin 2 points 2 years ago

You can indeed: https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run-fxa.html

I've not tried it but looks doable but probably need a degree of familiarity with both web hosting and linux based systems to trouble shoot, and you need to run both Sync and Accounts to authenticate it.

Personally I do trust Firefox with my browsing data and syncing so use their service.