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AfterDawn

Mozillalta varoitus: Päivitä vanhentunut Firefox heti

Mikäli käytössä on Firefox 127 tai sitä vanhempi, on selaimen juurivarmenne vanhentunut. Tästä seuraa tietoturvaongelmia ja mm. lisäosat eivät ole enää luotettavia.

Kehotus koskee Windowsia, Linuxia, macOS:aa ja Androidia.

dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/03/15/moz

AfterDawn · Firefox pitää päivittää heti tai lisäosat eivät toimiBy Petteri Pyyny
#firefox#mozilla#selaimet
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jbz

Nozilla (via @yoasif)

｢ Mozilla reduced granularity into the options for data collection in Firefox, enabled additional data collection by default, and gave itself the ability to use this new data for advertising purposes. Users would have to opt out of this data collection for it not to be used for advertising purposes (a purpose that Mozilla in this iteration is not forthright about) ｣

quippd.com/writing/2025/03/12/

Youssuff Quips · Mozilla Has Likely Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by DefaultTL;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 about the installation of Firefox. The Firefox preferences UI makes no mention of usage of this technical data for advertising purposes. Mozilla has also recently shared that they share data with their advertising partners “on a de-identified or aggregated basis”. Mozilla has given no indication that this is a new occurrence.
#firefox#mozilla#privacy
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Youssuff Quips

I looked on #reddit and the general tech press to see if the community had understood what is obvious today – enabling this setting by default allowed #Mozilla to further monetize the new tab page. I found afnan-khan’s sad submission of Mozilla’s privacy notice post. 13 net upvotes, 0 comments.

A massively consequential change with regards to data sharing in advertising, and the #Firefox community had nothing to say about it.

reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/

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Youssuff Quips

It’s finally making sense. #Mozilla reduced granularity into the options for data collection in #Firefox, enabled additional data collection by default, and gave itself the ability to use this new data for advertising purposes. Users would have to opt out of this data collection for it not to be used for advertising purposes (a purpose that Mozilla in this iteration is not forthright about).

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Kelson

New software review on my website!

Waterfox
★★★★☆

A Firefox fork aimed at improved performance and privacy, without sacrificing usability. Also available on Android.

Edit: they're here on the Fediverse: @Waterfox

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/waterfox/
#waterfox #firefox #mozilla #WebBrowser #privacy #floss

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Kelson Reviews Stuff · Waterfox - ReviewA Firefox fork aimed at improved performance and privacy, without sacrificing usability. Also available on Android.
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Mozilla warns #Firefox users to update browsers to the latest version to avoid facing disruption and security risks caused by the upcoming expiration of one of the company's #rootcertificates.
Mozilla certificate expires this Friday, March 14, 2025, and was used to sign content, including add-ons for various Mozilla projects and Firefox itself.
Users need to update to #Firefox128 (released in July 2024) or later and ESR 115.13 or later for 'Extended Support Release'.
bleepingcomputer.com/news/soft

BleepingComputer · Mozilla warns users to update Firefox before certificate expiresBy Bill Toulas
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Youssuff Quips

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 about the installation of #Firefox. The Firefox preferences UI makes no mention of usage of this technical data for advertising purposes. quippd.com/writing/2025/03/12/

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Youssuff Quips · Mozilla Has Likely Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by DefaultTL;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 about the installation of Firefox. The Firefox preferences UI makes no mention of usage of this technical data for advertising purposes. Mozilla has also recently shared that they share data with their advertising partners “on a de-identified or aggregated basis”. Mozilla has given no indication that this is a new occurrence.
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Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel:

Mozilla warns of their own root certificate authority expiration this Friday. Recommends updating to Firefox ESR 115 or Firefox 128.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/soft
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Mozilla met en garde contre l'expiration de leur propre autorité de certification racine ce vendredi. Conseille la mise à jour vers Firefox ESR 115 ou Firefox 128.

// Article en anglais //

BleepingComputer · Mozilla warns users to update Firefox before certificate expiresBy Bill Toulas
#Mozilla#Firefox#IT
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javi

I usually post here first and my post get shared to tumblr, but for this I posted on tumblr first, so I'm manually sharing it here too:

I want to talk a bit, again, about Mozilla and the changes that are happening around firefox ToS and commercial model.

So, I won't go again about why I don't trust the changes they are doing and why. I wanna go into something deeper, and worse, I've found out during my conversation with @ms-demeanor@tumblr.com.

So, long story short, when Mozilla announced they were acquiring a "privacy" startup called Anonym several months ago, I didn't think much about it. Tech companies acquire startups all the time when they want to do something this or that early stage startup does already. They buy the company, sometimes even for token amounts, and the entire startup joins them as their new "division of Whatever". So, as I said, when Moz announced their acquisition of Anonym, I barely paid attention: sure, sure, mozilla just acqui-hired a bunch of privacy-focused engineers, great.

But ... this morning I started looking in deep, and holly shit. Before I even started looking into the Anonym, I just saw who founded it:

Graham Mudd and Brad Smallwood. Two ex-facebook executives, who had been top heads on facebook's advertising and marketing divisions. These are the people who founded Anonym and now work for Mozilla. WHAT. THE. FUCK. These are people who has lead the worst division of Facebook in the worst years of the company. The years that made Zuck to entirely change the name, because "facebook" was considered too toxic. These are the guys who spearheaded converting the entire internet in a surveillance capitalism subproduct. These are THE BAD GUYS of the internet. If enshittification had a face, it would be those two guys up there.

So! Maybe they regret being an absolutely waste of human beings deserving to go to hell a thosand times over and now they want to redeem themselves?? ok let's look at what anonym do.

Mozilla let our guy Brad to write a blog post about this, nice! I can't totally trust his words, but hey, there has to be some kernel of truth in what they are trying to sell, right? so let's check! here's the post:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/anonym-technology-overview/

Holly fuck. HOLLY, FUCKING, FUCK.

Let me copy paste an excerpt:

"First, it’s important for us to be clear about the specific problem we’re trying to address. Digital advertising is highly reliant on user level data sharing between various industry participants. A simple example: Ad platforms collect information about the browsing and buying behavior of individuals from millions of websites and apps. That information is often associated with a user’s  “profile” and then is used to determine which ads to show that user. This practice is referred to by a number of terms – tracking, profiling, cross-site sharing, etc. Whatever the term, this approach typically isn’t aligned with people’s reasonable expectation of privacy. And it’s actually not even necessary to drive ad performance. Anonym’s goal is to develop a better approach for the industry."
ok, not bad start, yeah, we all want more privacy, for sure. But then THIS happens:

excuse me, WHAT? so your approach to "better privacy" is:


We shouldn't leak the private data we have from you


The data we mine from you should be anonymized and not linked your personal information when we sell it


We have to be transparent with advertisers so they trust us


We have to be able to met any demand from advertisers

WHAT THE FUCK?

So, 1 & 2 ARE FUCKING LEGAL REQUIREMENTS, at least in the EU (and I think in some states of the US, too). And 3&4 have NOTHING to do with user privacy, but with them being trustable for the people who pays for the ads.

This is FUCKING FACEBOOK. They have created an startup so anyone can use the facebook model for advertisement (data mining, anonymized data selling, scalable to the infinite). They left the monster they build to create a smaller version of that monster that anyone could use for their own company. And then, Mozilla bought them and put them, and their mini facebook, as their new advertisement division.

What the fuck. What THE FUCK.

This is WAY WORSE than what the terms of service changes seemed to point to. They have put the fucking wolves in charge of the sheep.

This is fucking disgusting. Those bastards never, ever, should have got their dirty greedy little hands close to a project like firefox.
#firefox#mozilla#enshittification
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Steven Rowe 🇨🇦🇬🇧

Deleted my #mozilla #firefox sync account due to the latest #privacy policy changes. Not sure why I was daft enough to create a sync account, have never really used it.

This has been a year of one company after another disappointing me and having to move elsewhere. Thankfully there is a lot of choice.

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Open Source Italia :gnu:

🔧 Firefox e privacy: come difendersi dopo le scelte di Mozilla

Il browser che amavamo sta cambiando pelle, #Mozilla sta cambiando approccio alla #privacy e alla gestione dei dati degli utenti, e non in meglio. Se utilizzate Firefox per la sua attenzione alla privacy, è il momento di rivedere alcune impostazioni e adottare precauzioni aggiuntive

L'articolo offre consigli pratici per proteggere i propri dati nonostante i recenti cambiamenti:

🔗 zdnet.com/article/the-firefox-

:diggita: @sicurezza

ZDNET · The Firefox I loved is gone - how to protect your privacy on it nowBy Steven Vaughan-Nichols
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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

Got @librewolf set up the way I like it, now.

Things you might want to consider when migrating from #Firefox:

  • There's no sync (I'm down with that, I don't want #Mozilla having any of my data anymore)
    • It can be turned on in settings, if you want it
  • Saving and auto-entering passwords is off by default, but can easily be turned back on in settings (no sync, though, remember!)
  • Anti-tracking features are in strict mode, so there may be a wee bit more breakage, which you can mollify by clicking on the shield icon next to the URL
  • Canvas is blocked by default, so sites that want to do image manipulation like mastodon/fediverse front-ends and meme creators need to have that permission granted
  • There's no mobile client, but #IronFox is a good companion for #Android
  • In most cases, you can just start #LibreWolf once to create the profile folder, close it, move or copy your firefox profile over to that directory
    • ~/.librewolf/ for native installs
    • ~/.var/app/{something}librewolf{something} for flatpak, I don't recall off the top of my head
      • Probably something like ~/.var/app/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/.librewolf
  • I had to turn off Resist Fingerprinting in settings, because it always reports UTC time to all websites, which is a pain with anything to do with scheduling, planning, or calendaring.
  • I had to turn off "Enforce OCSP hard-fail" in settings, as several sites failed to load
#MozillaExodus#FirefoxExodus
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It's a me, Mauro

After looking more into it, the #Mozilla #Firefox data selling situation is pretty worrisome. Either in good faith or bad faith, Mozilla is just not good at its job at this point, therefore making them untrustworthy in my eyes.

I've been giving a shot at a few alternatives, and I think I'll stick to #Waterfox .
I can easily rebuild my workflow with it.

#Librewolf would be better but it breaks too many things for my taste, and honestly I don't have fucking fingerprinting levels of paranoia.

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Kelson

New software review on my website!

LibreWolf
★★★★☆

Customized Firefox, with an eye toward security and privacy. Follows the stable release channel. Works well most of the time, but privacy features can break some sites.

Edit: they're on the Fediverse too! @librewolf

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/librewolf/
#LibreWolf #Firefox #Mozilla #WebBrowser #privacy

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Kelson Reviews Stuff · LibreWolf - ReviewCustomized Firefox, with an eye toward security and privacy. Follows the stable release channel. Works well most of the time, but privacy features can break some sites.
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