Firefox is trying to gain back user trust with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=O-xyNkvIB9g
This is a legit question: Should anybody trust Firefox again unless they put “we won’t sell your data” back into the privacy policy? I’m actually not sure if they haven’t already done so, let me elaborate:
https://brave.com/privacy/browser/ Brave: “We do not sell, trade, or transfer your information to any third parties.” This seems to obviously be in the legally binding text part. As is this one: “It’s Brave’s policy to not collect personal data1 unless it’s necessary to provide services to our users, or to meet certain legal obligations. We do not buy or sell personal data about consumers.” (Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer.)
However, for Firefox it seems ambiguous to me, which worries me: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#notice There is no appearance of “sell” in the entire privacy document, excpet for the top summary where i’m not sure if it’s at all legally non-binding.
Does anybody know if it is legally binding? If Mozilla were serious about it, why would they leave it ambiguous whether it is…?
Based on that, I’m not sure if Mozilla’s video about getting users back is worth trusting. I wonder if it’s just me.
Trust is hard to gain, very easy to lose. And much harder to regain, once its lost.
I have been a Firefox user since… its Mosaic days. And even after Chrome became a thing, FF remained my default choice. It was just my browser, I would shrug at anyone telling me Chrome was so much better.
Alas, their recent switch in regards to data/ads and after that their focus on AI, after a few previous decisions of them that quite worried me too, convinced me to do what I had never imagined I would do: replace FF as my default browser.
I now use Waterfox, and if Firefox is still installed on my Linux box I have not used it since (I’m a liar: I clicked it once, out of habit). I just don’t feel comfortable using it, it’s not my browser anymore. It’s just a browser, like Chrome or Edge, some corp is trying to force feed me, and to screw me with. Thx, but no.
I would love to see FF change path and regain my trust. But this will take some efforts.
Used Firefox for god knows how long. Reading your post made me want to try out Waterfox and I must say I really really like it so far. Gonna keep using it and maybe I’ll even uninstall Firefox down the line.
I still remember the Mozilla Internet Application Suite before the browser part was spun off into Firefox and the email into Thunderbird. Some of their moves have been disappointing but I’ll still never use Chrome
Same boat. Used Mozilla since back when you had to futz to get it to compile.
Fuck Mozilla. Fuck FireFox.
LibreWolf fixed what the Foundation and Board enahittified.