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   javi@goblin.band's status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 21:45:44 JST javi

   Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come from Firefox, and are based on information stored on your local device (including recent search terms, open tabs, and previously visited URLs), or content from Mozilla and Mozilla’s partners, including paid sponsors and internet resources like Wikipedia (“Suggestions from Firefox”).
   
   Here chat. Here. This is where Firefox dies.
   
   "information stored in your local device" and "content from mozilla's parners" and "paid sponsors".
   
   This is a very convoluted way of saying "we use your personal data to segment you into something we can sell to advertisers".
   
   This is EXACTLY what chrome does, this is exactly why a lot of us stopped using Chrome and moved back to Firefox. In some circumstances Mozilla’s partners will receive de-identified search and interaction data, in order to serve relevant suggestions and measure user engagement with suggested content.This is making me really mad. THIS IS JUST CORPO-SPEAK TO DESCRIBE HOW THE ENTIRE INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT INDUSTRY WORKS. This is HOW FACEBOOK WORK. This is how GOOGLE WORK. This is how the entire programmatic advertisement industry work. This is what we call "sell your personal data". No, no one sells your address, no one sells your name. BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL IN A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE WORLD.
   We also work with advertising providers to deliver relevant sponsored content using programmatic technologies. To support this, we may share limited, non-identifying information — such as device type, IP-derived location information, and category of content viewed — to help determine which ads to display. We don’t share any information that identifies you. You can turn off sponsored content in your New Tab settings at any time.Oh it's so nice of you Mozilla, to do THE MINIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENTS when selling our data. You don't share information that identify me? so nice of you! you know how else does that? Meta! Google! Tiktok! Somehow big tech mega corporations are willing to comply with the minimum legal requirements as you do, mozilla!In some cases, we may share or publish aggregated and anonymized data to facilitate research or as part of the lawful business purposes outlined above (such as sharing aggregated insights with advertising partners).This is called "advertisement segmentation" and it's what it paid for Zuckenberg fortress in Hawaii!! Going places, Moz, you are operating exactly as how Facebook used to do in 2016!To provide our services as described above, we may disclose personal data to: Partners, service providers, suppliers and contractors"We never disclose your personal data!!! well, unless it's one of our partners who pays us for it, of course!"
   
   oh wait! they include a table of what kind of data they share with partners!Technical dataLocationLanguage preferenceSettings dataUnique identifiersSystem performance dataInteraction dataSearch dataBrowsing dataThe SHARE FUCKING EVERYTHING. THEY ARE SELLING EVERYTHING. "Unique identifiers" is the closest to personal identifiable data they can sell. That's what advertisers can use to make a profile of you: They may not know your name, but they will know everything else about you.
   
   This is the same information that google collects and sells from you. THE SAME.
   
   Fucking ghouls. This is where Firefox died, folks.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 21:45:42 JST Rich Felker

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     @javi That's only if you have that misfeature on, and only if you use their default search. The notice may be new, but these bad defaults have been there for decades and they're just something you have to fix at new device setup time (or have a policy file you drop in to fix them all at once).

     This does not excuse Mozilla's trashy and abusive behavior. But it is what you need to navigate the present world safely.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 22:20:49 JST Rich Felker

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     @dngrs Documentation of how to make one is here: https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/

     I was looking for a good example one with all the privacy stuff done right but I don't see it at the moment. I'm more familiar with prefs.js so I just copy that to new profiles, but the policies.json approach seems more robust for things it can control, since it prevents them from getting reverted by accidental user action or by updates (and lets you nuke automatic updates entirely, which otherwise can't be done on Windows).

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     Kraftwerk-Das Model Collapse (dngrs@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 22:20:51 JST Kraftwerk-Das Model Collapse

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     @dalias do you have a link/recommendation for such a policy file?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:55:58 JST 翠星石

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     @tux0r @Pi_rat @Nexy @javi I don't understand why you would want to shackle yourself with digital handcuffs instead of just downloading the video with bittorrent and then being able to just play it.
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     OBI-Markt Kenobi :openbsd: (tux0r@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:55:59 JST OBI-Markt Kenobi :openbsd:

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     @Pi_rat @Nexy @javi No DRM = no streaming = no thanks.

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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:56:01 JST Pi_rat

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     @tux0r @Nexy @javi Abrowser, GNU Icecat, Librewolf, lynx.
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     OBI-Markt Kenobi :openbsd: (tux0r@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:56:02 JST OBI-Markt Kenobi :openbsd:

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     @Pi_rat @Nexy @javi So which fully free web browser without any proprietary add ins that make web browsing almost bearable do you recommend?

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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:56:03 JST Pi_rat

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     @tux0r @Nexy @javi "Here's your glass, I mixed a bit of pee but most of it is water"
     1 line of code is enough to spy, if there were no other options than cromium based I'd pick ungoogled chromium but never vivaldi until it is fully free software.
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     OBI-Markt Kenobi :openbsd: (tux0r@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:56:04 JST OBI-Markt Kenobi :openbsd:

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     @Pi_rat @Nexy @javi Most of it is open source. AFAIK there is no free DRM module anyway?

     (All FLOSS browsers don’t have one…)

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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:56:05 JST Pi_rat

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     @tux0r @Nexy @javi Proprietary, no thanks.
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     OBI-Markt Kenobi :openbsd: (tux0r@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:56:06 JST OBI-Markt Kenobi :openbsd:

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     @Nexy @javi Vivaldi is a pretty solid option IMO.

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     Ｎｅｘｙ (nexy@rebel.ar)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:56:07 JST Ｎｅｘｙ

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     @javi im tired of jumping from browser to browser and mod them every time by hand to not be shit. My god, is exhausting

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     javi@goblin.band's status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:56:31 JST javi

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     what the hell is wrong with you? "I'm ok with casual homophobia but I draw the line at closed source"?? seriously, fucking OSS nazis, go download Omarchy or something

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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:56:32 JST Pi_rat

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     @tux0r @Nexy @javi I wish you a very joyful corporate cock sucking, faggot.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 21:58:39 JST 翠星石

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     @javi @Pi_rat I wouldn't hesitate to kill "OSS" nazi's.
     
     The Omarchy website seriously refers to GNU as "Linux" has "Discord" and "Github" and of course the hosting is sponsored by clownflare!
     
     No, I will not download that proprietary software.