Not a good look for Firefox. Third partners and device fingerprinting clearly mentioned in the documents.
The move is the latest development in a series of shifts Mozilla has undergone over the past year.
The gecko engine and Firefox forks, such as Tor, Mullvad, Librewolf, and Arkenfox, are stables of private, open source web browsing.
In fact, Mozilla’s is one of the few browser engines out there, in a protocol-heavy industry that many say only corporate or well-funded non-profits can reliably develop.
What is more, daily driving the more hardened-for-privacy Firefox derivatives can be frowned upon by many sites, including your bank and workplace.
Mozilla’s enshittification leaves the open source community without a good alternative to Firefox, after years of promoting it as a privacy-friendly alternative to spyware-cum-browser Chrome.
I keep Firefox, brave, Librewolf, and Vivaldi All configured and loaded with my plugins and bookmarks.
When Google pulled out of Firefox funding I expected them to go down a dark path.
I don’t know that any of those choices of browsers are going to be significantly better than the others long-term. I’m also hoping for ladybug eventually.
LW doesn’t seem to play nice with some of my sites and some of my plugins. It’s the one I want most to work. The last time I tried it, delivering pass keys out of bitwarden in it didn’t work. And that kind of makes it a no-go for me. I should try it again though it’s been at least a year.
I’m pretty sure brave would sell my kidneys if they could. But they are the only one on the list that’s truly funded and they keep up with the Joneses on YouTube ad blocking. And there also probably the strongest browser for anti-fingerprinting at the moment.
Vivaldi seems to work okay but it’s just a Google clone, they’ve only dedicated to not enforcing manifest V3 for “as long as they could.”
I thought Mullvad was the best in anti-fingerprinting. Anyone can check their own configuration with EFF’s “cover your tracks” site.
They slightly edge out brave on vanilla. Once you load all of your plugins and stuff braves a little better at lying about it. To be fair they’re both close enough it doesn’t matter either one will get the job done. I usually think of mull as a leave it vanilla and use it when you need to leave no trace.
Note just to be sure, Mull is a different thing than Mullvad. What you wrote makes sense for Mullvad, but I am not so sure if this is the case with Mull, the mobile app.
I’m only dealing with desktop browsers in this and trying to type with autocomplete from an uncomfortable position. I’m fairly certain privacy doesn’t really exist in OTC Android.