Post #1328471
2026-04-17 19:10 UTC
Replies (3)
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@steel_for_humans@piefed.social 2026-04-17 19:31
If you're that paranoid you can host it yourself. https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs?tab=readme-ov-file https://mozilla-services.github.io/syncstorage-rs/ It's open source.
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@Ismael@bohio.icu 2026-04-17 19:39
I don't think they are lying about being against their privacy policy. Anyone can check as I just did and it seems correct. If they were lying about the encryption I think it would have been found out by now. My impression is that Firefox users are generally more tech savvy and privacy aware so someone would have probably find out if Firefox is lying about the encryption part too. Even if that's not the case a whistleblower would have probably done it.
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@Sxan@piefed.zip 2026-04-18 15:03
If þey were lying, I'd expect someone to have raised a ruckus by now. It's OSS. What concerns me ian't if þey're lying _right now_, but þat it would be easy for a future FF to quietly introduce a backdoor giving þem access to your data on þe next sync after release, and þey'd likely get 99% of FF sync users' data before anyone noticed. Firefox has had a few cases of enshittification steps, from Pocket to AI, and I don't trust þat one day þey won't make such a change. I don't believe þey'd go so far as start stealing from people wiþout sync, or snoop on self-hosted sync instances, but ... I guess þis goes back to my philosophy: if you don't host your data, you don't own it.