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| Re: FireFox... [message #301518 is a reply to message #301517] |
Fri, 06 December 2019 23:04   |
Kermit
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Registered: June 2003
Location: Yorkshire
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(22) Giacomo Agostini |
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From the horses mouth, they've built the 'Sync' so that even Mozilla/Firefox themselves don't have access to your data, it'll be encrypted and only your login can unencrypt it. This 'could' be a lie but I'd expect they'd be caught out very quickly and exposed if they did tell porkies as there's plenty of white hat hackers (hackers doing the right thing to expose security loopholes etc) out there that would love to expose a con if there was one.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/
I didn't read all the above link but this is interesting and not unexpectedAs noted above, Chrome implements Option 1 by default, which means unless you change the settings before you enable sync, Google will see all of your browsing history and other data, and use it to market services to you. Chrome also implements Option 2 as an opt-in feature
that's why I don't have Chrome on my PCs as Goole didn't release Chrome to be nice, it released it to add to its ability to capture data and target you do ads and other such things 
and if you don't believe them, then feel free to download the source code for Firefox (all versions) and scrutinize the code which is way above what most of us can do (me included) but trust me there's people out there who will use/check the code and if any of its suspect in terms of privacy, they'll let the world know.
Lets ask Google, Apple or Microsoft for the source code of Safari, IE/Edge or Chrome?
https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/71.0/ <-- this is the current release but remove the /71.0/ and you'll see the code for all other releases. The code is in /source/ folder and if you wanted and had the know how, you could download it yourself, open in Visual Studio or whatever developer application applicable to the programming language its written (C++, C#, Basic..its not Basic lol ) in and compile it into an executable yourself, even make a few personal adjustment lol 
I'm a big believer in opensource code and programs as aside from being free, it tends to be well programmed due to many individual contributors and aimed almost solely at creating a better program rather than profit.
BTW Tor Browser and a few other 'secure' and off shoot browsers are built on a branch from the Mozilla/Firefox code because its free and because it proven to be a good safe base to work from.
https://www.howtogeek.com/108608/6-alternative-browsers-base d-on-mozilla-firefox/
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