Hot Take Mozilla’s New Terms of Use are out of step with Firefox’s Direct Competition

[n8chavez]

I'm happy that I switched to Vivaldi before this, can't be happier, as Vivaldi said: "Get away from Big Tech and have fun doing it".

Yuuuup. As much as I like Firefox, and I do a lot, it seems like staying with anything gecko-based is like living in denial. There's no money in it for them, and 99.9% percent of sites are coded for the Chromium engine specifically. I like Vivaldi; it seems like it's as close to the customization of Firefox (Zen) as I can get while using the Chromium engine.

 

[anirbandutta01]

In my opinion, that's a bad move. I did the opposite. Firefox let's you customize everything you want, staring from UI to how the browser itself works. Firefox is really 100% customizable unlike any other Chromium browser out there.

Don't like Mozilla data policy? Just turn data collectio off and you're good.
Don't like Firefox looks the way it looks? Create your own userChrome.css and make your own design of the browser. Or use one of the hundreds already made designs.
Don't like how the browser works? User.js file is your best friend.

Brave and Chromium is stuck with predefined settings, flags and that's pretty much it.

Thank you for your suggestion. Currently I'm using Vivaldi .

 

[anirbandutta01]

Don't like Firefox looks the way it looks? Create your own userChrome.css and make your own design of the browser. Or use one of the hundreds already made designs.

Could you please guide me?

 

[n8chavez]

Could you please guide me?

Sorry I'm not @Marko :), but you can start by reading this. After that, this is a good start to customizations.

 

[Marko :)]

Sorry I'm not @Marko :), but you can start by reading this. After that, this is a good start to customizations.

Or he can use already created themes if he doesn't want to create his own...

FirefoxCSS Store

A curated list of Firefox userChrome.css Themes.

trickypr.github.io

 

[anirbandutta01]

Or he can use already created themes if he doesn't want to create his own...

FirefoxCSS Store

A curated list of Firefox userChrome.css Themes.

trickypr.github.io

Thank you so much I'll try it later and let you know if any further help required.

 

[Marko :)]

There's also Zen Browser which is like Arc, but built on Gecko (same engine that runs Firefox).

 

[piquiteco]

I assume that Mozilla has changed its Terms of Use, due to money $, I used to receive a lot of emails from Mozilla asking for donates against TikTok and other companies, which according to Mozilla was fighting to preserve "privacy". As they didn't receive many donates or perhaps any donates at all, it seems that they got angry and decided to change their terms of use and collect our data. Google already pays millions of dollars to Mozilla to keep the google search engine as the default on firefox, but I guess that wasn't enough for mozilla. That's just my humble opinion.

 

[Marko :)]

I assume that Mozilla has changed its Terms of Use, due to money $, I used to receive a lot of emails from Mozilla asking for donates against TikTok and other companies, which according to Mozilla was fighting to preserve "privacy". As they didn't receive many donates or perhaps any donates at all, it seems that they got angry and decided to change their terms of use and collect our data. Google already pays millions of dollars to Mozilla to keep the google search engine as the default on firefox, but I guess that wasn't enough for mozilla. That's just my humble opinion.

Mozilla didn't change their business strategy. They just changed wording in their legal documents to be compatible with laws worldwide. A lot of dust was raised regarding "sell" terminology which in some countries means to exchange something for money, while in others it also means a simple transfer from one to another place.

Mozilla was in fact very clear and transparent about it.

 

[oldschool]

Could you please guide me?

There are many, many things you can do, but they require some research to find various user.chrome tweaks.
Here's a pre-built Nord theme for Firefox that I use.

Nord - Firefox Theme by dpcdpc11 on DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com

 

[n8chavez]

Apparently, I interpreted "design" incorrectly to not mean "themes". Lo Siento.

 

[anirbandutta01]

There are many, many things you can do, but they require some research to find various user.chrome tweaks.
Here's a pre-built Nord theme for Firefox that I use.

Nord - Firefox Theme by dpcdpc11 on DeviantArt

www.deviantart.com

View attachment 288040

Thank you so much

 

[oldschool]

Apparently, I interpreted "design" incorrectly to not mean "themes". Lo Siento.

I also took it to include UI design, e.g. to make FF more Chrome-like. I think themes are only part.

 

[oldschool]

Mozilla Has Likely Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default

TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This included data about advertising within Firefox’s New Tab page, along with a lot of other technical information...

www.quippd.com

 

[Marko :)]

Mozilla Has Likely Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default

TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This included data about advertising within Firefox’s New Tab page, along with a lot of other technical information...

www.quippd.com

Honestly, I don't mind as long as Mozilla lets me disable any kind of data collection. If it didn't let me do that, then we would have a problem. I hate all kinds of telemetry equally, and whenever I can it's the first thing I turn off, no matter how much I like the product. If there's a way to make a product more private, I'd do it.