Post #1434557

2026-02-25 21:39 UTC

#Mozilla has lost their ground and is now in a free fall into a sinkhole. I doubt they'll ever get out if this again unless they do a 180-turn within the coming days. Mozilla has lost a lot of trust and credibility over the last couple of years. This accelerates that distrust even more. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/ It looks promising, until you hit the last paragraph (my highlight) In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our privacy notice. Whenever we share data with our partners, we put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share is stripped of potentially identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP). In my book, that's indirectly selling data. Goodbye, #Firefox. Update (2026-02-26): So this change happened exactly 1 year ago. I saw the date and missed the year. And since Mozilla is still doing the privacy whitewashing, there is no reason to trust Mozilla more today than a year ago. Leaving Firefox is unavoidable. The current Mozilla leadership does not deserver much trust from the community. #privacy #ads #foss #opensource #web

Replies (15)

@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-02-25 21:48

@dazo I need to see that smarmy CEO out in the street with a Banker's box full of his shit before I reconsider Firefox as a web browser again.

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@nf3xn@mastodon.social 2026-02-25 22:23

@dazo Sure MozGoogle may fall but forks will live on.

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@EdCates@mastodon.social 2026-02-25 22:31

@dazo They aren't doing themselves any favors when they have an employee chime into the discussion claiming that giving themselves "a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use" the information you upload or input through the browser is necessary for things like internet searches to work.

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@lmgenealogy@mstdn.ca 2026-02-25 22:59

@dazo Once profit becomes the goal, principles go out the window. Even Google started off with "Don't be evil."

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@craftydifficult@hoosier.social 2026-02-25 23:25

@dazo so a depressing game to play is watching network traffic when Firefox starts. It pings a dozen servers unnecessarily. Luckily forks are OK and firejail & open snitch are very useful

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@circumspicio@mastodon.social 2026-02-26 00:20

@dazo Don't walk, Run from FireFox!

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@JaggyJeff@mastodon.social 2026-02-26 00:35

@dazo Getting paid so much to put out that crap is so outrageous.

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@swordgeek@mstdn.ca 2026-02-26 01:02

@dazo for the record, that was a year ago.

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@thenoobdev10@mastodon.social 2026-02-26 03:03

@dazo It's been almost a year since i first saw this meme, and sadly this still holds true today.

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@tomf@witter.cz 2026-02-26 08:10

@dazo Unfortunately, there is no alternative (only worse - Google). We are waiting and hoping for the #ladybirdbrowser

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@riaschissl@sigmoid.social 2026-02-26 21:33

@dazo First, please don't get me wrong: Like anyone else, I don't want my data to be sold, and at the very last by the browser I've been using as my daily driver for anything internet for years. But the question I can't find a viable answer for is: How can Firefox become a sustainable organization? Selling our data is a no-go, that's for sure. But how do they make the money required to not only maintain but also invest in Firefox?

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@bjc@tines.spork.org 2026-02-26 21:58

@dazo maybe its github crashing under the load, but when i try to load this commit, it shows for a second before it disappears with "the page is unavailable due to a system error." debug console shows a bunch of 429s from a graphql query just before it goes tits up. the rest of the site continues to work

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@djsumdog@djsumdog.com 2026-02-27 05:38

I've been on Librewolf for a few years now, even before that policy change. It's sad when we need privacy aware forks of Firefox, but here we are.

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@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud 2026-02-27 08:55

@dazo do you know what optional ads are? Its literally said right there. And where are you gonna move? Chrome? Librewolf (wich is essentiallt Firefox with a couple of config changes)? NOTHING have changed when the TOS was slightly (yes, slightly, its still saying it) changed.

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@ryan@social.eqrion.net 2026-02-27 15:08

@dazo Just an FYI, Mozilla’s privacy policy commits to “We never sell your personal data.” https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/

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