“A republic, if you can keep it.”

“A republic, if you can keep it.”

  • Rose@lemmy.zipEnglish
    121·
    2 months ago

    Given its in-court defense of Google, Mozilla is clearly complicit and its products should be boycotted. It’s a shame it’s the only alternative to Chromium, but I’m perfectly fine with the US government cracking down on Google, no matter the consequences for Firefox. The monopoly must be disrupted for the benefit of every internet user.

      • untakenusername@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        they changed their ToS to allow themselves to collect some anonymous user data, no idea if they’ve started

        the waterfox and librewolf are still safe

        • Override4414@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          i have done some research and they are not very specific about what data they are collecting, will they collect users password/bookmarks? i thought sync is encrypted and server is impossible to decrypt user’s data? so what data are they collecting exactly?

        • NotProLemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          14 days ago

          and also ironfox

          (we have the three elements; iron, water and fire. where is wind?)

      • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
        1·
        2 months ago

        I wrote up what happened (more stuff on my blog).

        TL;DR they use aggregated data for ads and they felt like they needed to have an explicit opt-in.

  • tensor_nightly69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Great read, making me question if my immediate switch to Librewolf was premature.

  • Guidy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    If it’s so great for Privacy, why does it support DNS over HTTPS?

    Taking name resolution control away from the user and the OS is NOT a benefit to your privacy. Especially since bad actors can and do exploit DNS for data exfiltration.

    (And yes, you can disable it… FOR NOW.)

    • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      21 days ago

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    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      If it’s so great for Privacy, why does it support DNS over HTTPS?

      DNS queries can be and are logged by public WiFi access points and ISPs. DoH cannot.

      Taking name resolution control away from the user and the OS is NOT a benefit to your privacy.

      It doesn’t take anything away. It’s just a default. If you don’t want DoH, then just turn it off.

      (And yes, you can disable it… FOR NOW.)

      So you’re okay with the current situation and are complaining about some hypothetical future that you are theorizing might materialize?