UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of t
Securing your data with Sync involves creating a unique password, which plays a crucial role in encrypting your data for complete privacy. This encryption is end-to-end: your data is encrypted before it ever leaves your browser and can only be decrypted by another instance of Firefox. Once your data reaches a Mozilla-operated server for storage, it’s already in an encrypted state
what about their new ads company?
Mozilla thinks that they CANNOT win the war against the Advertising industry (that includes Google, and other tech giants), to them it’s pointless to go against the tide, this is why they built Privacy preserving attribution… which ironically just gives more data to advertisers… And this is me giving them the benefit of doubt…
Where do you see this? It applies to bookmarks too so Firefox Sync (which, surprise, is not E2E encrypted).
Maybe all their AI. And what about their new ads company?
first of all, Firefox sync is e2ee, open source, and you can selfhost it
Mozilla thinks that they CANNOT win the war against the Advertising industry (that includes Google, and other tech giants), to them it’s pointless to go against the tide, this is why they built Privacy preserving attribution… which ironically just gives more data to advertisers… And this is me giving them the benefit of doubt…