Mozilla owns information "you input through Firefox"

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LibreWolf

> Does curl need a license to send HTTP requests for me? No, but if they had one and it was phrased like this one, the license itself would be limited to these activities. If you want something to decry from Mozilla's terms, pay attention to this part: > Every once in a while, Mozilla may decide to update these Terms. We will post the updated Terms online. We will take your continued use of Firefox as acceptance of such changes. We will post an effective date at the top of this page to make it clear when we made our most recent update. Note that they even tell you that you can check for yourself to see if/when they tell you that you've agreed to give them a new license. That is much closer to allowing them to do anything they want than what the current license allows. Regardless of any of that, the thing to have in mind is that this is an explicit message from Mozilla that you are agreeing to these terms <i>by using firefox</i> and continuing to agree to the terms <i>by using firefox</i>. Not to say this is ideal; just that it's as good a time as any to move on from Mozilla and firefox, especially if one is unhappy with these terms. I say this as someone who has left behind Mozilla and firefox after using it for over a decade. I will continue to be on the look out for and supportive of alternatives. So far librewolf (https://librewolf.net/) has been an easy pick-up as it's primarily just firefox with telemetry turned off.

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Gnu Icecat Desktop

This made me look into Firefox forks/alternatives: Librewolf [1] seems to be fairly active (last commit on Codeberg was last week) and up-to-date with the latest upstream releases (mirrors FF's versioning scheme and matches their latest). Has a nice focus on privacy and no-telemetry. Floorp [2] also looks active (last commit last week), also claims focus on privacy. Based off FF's extended support releases so it may lag behind in latest features. Waterfox [3] is also active (last commit a few hours ago), also big focus on privacy, but it uses a custom versioning scheme so I can't tell how closely it follows FF's releases. GNU IceCat's [4] latest release was in November 02023, so it looks like it may be abandoned. Does anyone have any experience with any of these, good or bad? With all of them more or less promising the same things it's hard to tell which one may be the better option. 1: https://librewolf.net/ 2: https://floorp.app/en 3: https://www.waterfox.net/ 4: https://icecatbrowser.org/.

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This made me look into Firefox forks/alternatives: Librewolf [1] seems to be fairly active (last commit on Codeberg was last week) and up-to-date with the latest upstream releases (mirrors FF's versioning scheme and matches their latest). Has a nice focus on privacy and no-telemetry. Floorp [2] also looks active (last commit last week), also claims focus on privacy. Based off FF's extended support releases so it may lag behind in latest features. Waterfox [3] is also active (last commit a few hours ago), also big focus on privacy, but it uses a custom versioning scheme so I can't tell how closely it follows FF's releases. GNU IceCat's [4] latest release was in November 02023, so it looks like it may be abandoned. Does anyone have any experience with any of these, good or bad? With all of them more or less promising the same things it's hard to tell which one may be the better option. 1: https://librewolf.net/ 2: https://floorp.app/en 3: https://www.waterfox.net/ 4: https://icecatbrowser.org/.

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Iceraven

I use https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser. If you don't need that, I'd recommend IronFox because of its explicit security goals.

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