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Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Mozilla is updating its new Terms of Use for Firefox due to criticism over unclear language about user data.
  • Original terms seemed to give Mozilla broad ownership of user data, causing concern.
  • Updated terms emphasize limited scope of data interaction, stating Mozilla only needs rights necessary to operate Firefox.
  • Mozilla acknowledges confusion and aims to clarify their intent to make Firefox work without owning user content.
  • Company explains they don't make blanket claims of "never selling data" due to evolving legal definitions and obligations.
  • Mozilla collects and shares some data with partners to keep Firefox commercially viable, but ensures data is anonymized or shared in aggregate.
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Whats the alternative on android?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Ironfox

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

IronFox is an option

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where do I get it? It's neither on the playstore nor on Fdroid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

You can get the F-Droid repo from their GitLab or Github (they recommend Accrescent though)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm using Fennec.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fennec is maintained by Mozilla lol

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

Is it? It seems to be maintained by a user named relan based out of Russia. It's just a few scripts to build it for F-Droid and basically just removes some proprietary stuff. It's not a fork, just a build script.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Straight from the Fdroid page (on the Fdroid Android app)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Yes, this is built from Mozilla's sources, but AFAIK Mozilla doesn't maintain this build script, and the build script strips out certain parts of Firefox and adds in others (e.g. logo). It's not a fork of Firefox, it's just a builder that replaces parts of Firefox.

So Mozilla doesn't maintain Fennec, since Fennec is a separate build of Firefox, but they do maintain what Fennec is built from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Waterfox if you are ok with getting it from the play store