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Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 1 month ago by farcaster@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's my biggest problem with LibreWolf: the defaults are waay too strict and disable/break so many things

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bad distro? They are in mine 🤷‍♂️

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Well, it's Kubuntu, so yeah, I guess.

But it's a popular bad distro, so that's still a problem for a lot of people.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But has no mobile version effectively making it useless.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] usernameusername@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I need sync...

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

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