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   🐈‍⬛David Sommerseth (dazo@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 07:12:12 JST 🐈‍⬛David Sommerseth

   This is sad 😢

   https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847

   #firefox #privacy #mozilla #foss #opensource #web

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     🐈‍⬛David Sommerseth (dazo@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 07:12:12 JST 🐈‍⬛David Sommerseth

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     The discussions are heated ...

     https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/information-about-the-new-terms-of-use-and-updated-privacy/m-p/87735

     https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/an-update-on-our-terms-of-use/m-p/88320

     Ricardo :Ryyca: 🐧 🦠 :v_com: repeated this.
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     🐈‍⬛David Sommerseth (dazo@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 07:12:12 JST 🐈‍⬛David Sommerseth

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     #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.

     #privacy #ads #foss #opensource #web

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     realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Feb-2026 14:40:45 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️

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     • djsumdog

     @djsumdog @dazo I used #Librewolf years ago, only switching to #FirefoxNightly when I got a new computer. If #Librewolf has a nightly version like #Firefox does, I might make the switch. It should be painless enough.

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Feb-2026 14:40:46 JST djsumdog

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     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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