General rule of thumb: Every time an organization updates their terms of service and/or privacy policy, it is never because they have your best interests at heart.
Specific thoughts on this latest Mozilla action (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/)
Setting aside the "worldwide license" bullshit, the privacy policy appears to have broadened both the classes of data Mozilla aims to collect, and the situations in which they collect them.
These are not the actions of an org that cares about your privacy.
@sarahjamielewis what are the alternatives at this point? I've (mostly) switched to Firefox from chrome right before Mozilla's headfirst dive into enshittification, and though I use vanadium on my phone (de-googled chrome), the only other browser in really aware of that is likely to maybe be an option is the base chromium project?
@Wren @sarahjamielewis librewolf is anecdotally the one FF fork I've seen recommended the most. I have used it a bit tho it lacks a few of the niceties of FF proper, particularly around auto-updating
@castanea_jo @Wren @sarahjamielewis I just learned about Orion, which seems like it could be a good d alternative. It’s been developed by the team at Kagi.
@leftyknowitall @castanea_jo @Wren @sarahjamielewis Yeah, I've been solely on Orion for a year or two now. Still in beta, but increasingly solid, and fiercely privacy-centric.
(Like Kagi, they want people to actually pay money for it. But that enables them to *not* do advertising and privacy invasions the way most of the rest do.)
@jducoeur @castanea_jo @Wren @sarahjamielewis I only installed it this week, and I have enjoyed it so far. My understanding is that they are using Kagi subscriptions to fund it, and that Orion is meant to remain free... but we will see. The only thing that game me pause about it is that they say the code will be released as open source once it's out of beta, but who knows if they will follow through. (Please correct me if I'm wrong. I am not a tech person.)
@leftyknowitall @castanea_jo @Wren @sarahjamielewis Kagi has a pretty good track record on open source (they have several projects on Github so far), so if they say it’ll be released, I suspect it will be.
(Hadn't noticed that myself, but I haven't looked.)