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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

Why why why don't they just do like Wikipedia or the Internet Archive does and just come out and ask for donations instead of trying to sneak all this advertising shit into things?

EDIT: Another idea, which I'm sure they'll never consider, is to host actual @thunderbird.net email addresses which could be paid for. People at this very minute are looking for Proton Mail replacements, and this could be one of them . . .

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

https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

i can suggest ironfox, the fork of mull for android

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

What's the best alternative? This doesn't sound great.....

[–] [email protected] 28 points 14 hours ago

I’m switching to Librewolf. I don’t want ads in my browser.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago

anyone up to date on how servo has been doing?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This seems like a great time to install LibreWolf.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Yes, but even more important to avoid sync with an Mozilla account, if you need the sync function (maybe Filen?) (Vivaldi has an own sync EE2E)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I just switched to Bitwarden for passwords

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

That's the best free option, and possibly best option overall. I've been with them for about five years now and it's been great.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

AFAIK the sync is end to end encrypted

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Yes, Mozilla sync is encrypted, but your account data is sended to Alphabet (Google) and tracked by googleanalytics and google-tagmanager.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

i think you can have it sync to a self hosted server, also an option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

You can, but the last time I did that the instructions were incomplete, and you still had to auth through Mozilla. That was a few years ago, so things might have changed since then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Firefox sync is E2EE too (or at least can be, mine is)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

And Firefox is no longer my browser. Tada.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

do you mean you use a more privacy oriented fork like Librewolf, or instead some chrome/chromium derivative or fork?

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