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We’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated Privacy Notice.  Why now? Although we’ve historically relie

Not a good look for Firefox. Third partners and device fingerprinting clearly mentioned in the documents.

The move is the latest development in a series of shifts Mozilla has undergone over the past year.

The gecko engine and Firefox forks, such as Tor, Mullvad, Librewolf, and Arkenfox, are stables of private, open source web browsing.

In fact, Mozilla’s is one of the few browser engines out there, in a protocol-heavy industry that many say only corporate or well-funded non-profits can reliably develop.

What is more, daily driving the more hardened-for-privacy Firefox derivatives can be frowned upon by many sites, including your bank and workplace.

Mozilla’s enshittification leaves the open source community without a good alternative to Firefox, after years of promoting it as a privacy-friendly alternative to spyware-cum-browser Chrome.

    • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      Zen seems to have picked up a lot of privacy improvements but it’s a pretty small team doing a lot of ambitious work. I like it, but it’s got a lot of (minor, mostly aesthetic) bugs.

      I use mullvad for stuff I really don’t want a record of (for as much as that’s possible)

      On the chrome side, Vivaldi (former opera before they sold out to china) is a good browser, but even more ambitious and even more buggy than zen. It has a built in email client. Like, who does that?

    • petroskoi@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I switched to LibreWolf after seeing these news. It’s been working just as well as firefox and you can adjust the privacy functions as much or as little as you want.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I appreciate the recommendation. I’ve been using Firefox for many years but I admit it’s time in the sun is over. It hurts to leave it behind but I guess nothing lasts forever.

        Goodbye old friend

    • Drew@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      17 hours ago

      I started using Zen today, it seems fine. If you’re privacy conscious librewolf is definite the best