Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. In November 2017, Firefox began incorporating new technology under the code name "Quantum" to promote parallelism and a more intuitive user interface. Firefox is available for Windows 7 and later versions, macOS, and Linux. Its unofficial ports are available for various Unix and Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, illumos, and Solaris Unix. It is also available for Android and iOS. However, as with all other iOS web browsers, the iOS version uses the WebKit layout engine instead of Gecko due to platform requirements. An optimized version is also available on the Amazon Fire TV as one of the two main browsers available with Amazon's Silk Browser. Taken from Wikipedia.
Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, EULA.
Disclaimer: I am getting all the info from the links above, which don't account for user hardening such as arkenfox user.js. Assume this score means no hardening whatsoever.
Yes they exist lmao.
If you're a smart person then you'd know to never link your browser to an account of any kind.
Can't exactly confirm as I've never had one but considering Firefox I think they'll accept them.
This is a default when you first open it and continue using it. Always harden your Firefox folks.
Includes Firefox version and language, device operating system and hardware configuration, memory, basic information about crashes and errors, outcome of automated processes like updates, safebrowsing, and activation.
"Firefox uses your IP address to suggest relevant content based on your country and state". They don't even ask consent, blegh.
Too much information to list.
Mainly Adzerk when using Pocket Recommendations for advertising and AdMarketplace when clicking on a Sponsored Top Site for... you guessed it, more advertising.
Worst part is it's a default. We can't have good things I swear.
As much as I'd have liked to give this the all approved +15, one of the first things I learned from using FF with a firewall is that even if you opt out of everything, they still connect to their telemetry servers. Setting up arkenfox is the only way to actually stop this from happening.
According to the Mozilla Privacy Policy, which FF's own Privacy Policy adheres to they "also don't want your personal information for any longer than we need it, so we only keep it long enough to do what we collected it for. Once we don't need it, we take steps to destroy it unless we are required by law to keep it longer". Cool I guess.
With this we can at least alter some T&A.
Mozilla apparently gets $300 million a year for setting FF's default search engine to Google. If that ain't the definition of being backed then I don't know what is.
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Analysis: What many herald as the more privacy conscious alternative to Chrome didn't exactly get a mark I expected. While a positive score does keep it ahead of the competition, a low one doesn't speak for much. That being said the only way to privately use it is to set it up with the aforementioned arkenfox user.js and if possible, customize some of the overrides with a separate user-overrides.js file to tinker it to your specific needs. I believe once Firefox is hardened then it is one of the most private ways to surf the web next to using Tor browser. Moral of the story, sometimes we just gotta do things ourselves and never assume anything is private out of the box unless you or a party you trust can verify that claim.
Oh, and here's an easy to follow tutorial on how to harden your Firefox.