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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] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The green chicken flag strikes again. It may be a small thing, but i knew the logo change was the first step towards corpo bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 354 points 2 days ago (15 children)

I am so tired of feeling like I have an adversarial relationship with everything in my life

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Fantastic, guess I'll be looking for an alternative to Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHH!!

FUCK!

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago (3 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] 32 points 2 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago

So much for being a "private browser." It literally says that on the app store in the title.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Ohh look... CEO can fuck ur wife BC ToS says so right here 🤡

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

Omfg I'm sick of this bullshit

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I await to see technical enforcement of it. Anyone can write rules on a piece of paper, but without collecting information physically, or having someone enforce it, it's useless words. And so far it seems a lot of people and companies make rules and claims without technological enforcement.

I imagine though at worst you can simply block all of mozilla's domains through /etc/hosts and their IPs or IP range with a firewall rule. Still sucks but you do not need to comply with it, no matter what anyone says. It's the technical aspects that are the most thorny, not the words on a page.


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[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fuck your Ai and your license agreement. Enshittification stops at no company.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe going from community effort to company driven isn't so great after all. people say that Open source projects need to do that to stay alive or be worth while. Though all that has been happening with companies lately points to a different conclusion.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Doesn't apply to forks, but still...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Bruh. Is there a Firefox fork on Android? I have Librewolf on desktop but I don't think they have an Android app sadly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

As another user mentioned, there's Fennec. There's also Iceraven.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Fennec is one for Android. Seems okay so far.

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