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Mozilla adds stupid AI stuff with horrible T&C (lemdro.id)
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PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big "yes, try it" button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool

https://queer.party/@m04/112872517189786676

So, Mozilla adds an AI review features for products you view using Firefox. Other than being very useless, it's T&C are as anti-consumer as it possibly can be. It's like mozilla saying directly "we don't care about your privacy".

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Which forks?

[–] nia_the_cat@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

On desktop I've been using Librewolf, Mullvad Browser is good too. There's also some forks on Android, Mull and Fennec, of those I prefer Mull

Edit: Waterfox is another fork on desktop that had some controversy when bought by an advertising company, but they're independent again as of last year

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do the same browser plugins work on librewolf?

[–] Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Yes. Out of the box, it has uBlock Origin installed.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What would you recommend for Android?

Also, have you found anything that works well with Firefox Sync? I use Sync for my bookmarks but it doesn't seem to be able to sync with LibreWolf

[–] nia_the_cat@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'd recommend Mull, it's pretty much Librewolf for Android

As for the syncing I'm not sure

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fennec

isn't fennec a 1:1 rebuild? I believe it still has everything turned on

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What even would be the purpose of such software?

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

rebuild for distribution on fdroid as not to violate trademarks

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

It has some of the proprietary stuff and telemetry removed

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Commenting to check these out later

[–] simpleguy@cuddly.space 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@DoucheBagMcSwag @nia_the_cat Did you checked it?

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I'm actually trying IceRaven right now

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mullvad Browser (Tor Browser without onion network), Librewolf, Arkenfox (not a fork, just hardes regulär Firefox and disables mozilla's telemetry)

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I downloaded it but the option to come back to where I left off when I close the program was greyed out. I'm a tab-a-holic and I don't like that. Any comments about that?

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I think mullvad browser uses always icognito so it does not save any site data to disk. I think it is not adapted to your use case.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Mullvad browser for me

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you.

[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

Ooh. Thanks