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[–] Override4414@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What did mozilla do? waterfox and librewolf still safe?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wrote up what happened (more stuff on my blog).

TL;DR they use aggregated data for ads and they felt like they needed to have an explicit opt-in.

[–] Override4414@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

thanks alot man

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

they changed their ToS to allow themselves to collect some anonymous user data, no idea if they've started

the waterfox and librewolf are still safe

[–] Override4414@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i have done some research and they are not very specific about what data they are collecting, will they collect users password/bookmarks? i thought sync is encrypted and server is impossible to decrypt user's data? so what data are they collecting exactly?

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

I don't think they've started collecting data but they might in the future.