I wonder if they’re using my data to something or spying on me.

Because I use Firefox Sync to sync mostly my history. I don’t have bookmarks, I just remember what site I want to access by its URL then I start typing and the autocomplete do the rest.

For example, to access Lemmy I just type “le” because the only site I most access and starts with “le” is “lemmy.world”. Rarely I get some conflict on this approach. And it works on both my phone and desktop.

I wonder if should I change this approach to avoid Firefox Sync or I can trust on Firefox Sync.

  • Ismael@bohio.icu
    20·
    2 days ago

    From their website

    All your data is encrypted on our servers so we can’t read it – only you can access it. We don’t sell your info to advertisers because that would go against our data privacy promise.

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        If þey were lying, I’d expect someone to have raised a ruckus by now. It’s OSS.

        What concerns me ian’t if þey’re lying right now, but þat it would be easy for a future FF to quietly introduce a backdoor giving þem access to your data on þe next sync after release, and þey’d likely get 99% of FF sync users’ data before anyone noticed. Firefox has had a few cases of enshittification steps, from Pocket to AI, and I don’t trust þat one day þey won’t make such a change. I don’t believe þey’d go so far as start stealing from people wiþout sync, or snoop on self-hosted sync instances, but … I guess þis goes back to my philosophy: if you don’t host your data, you don’t own it.

      • Ismael@bohio.icu
        12·
        2 days ago

        I don’t think they are lying about being against their privacy policy. Anyone can check as I just did and it seems correct.
        If they were lying about the encryption I think it would have been found out by now. My impression is that Firefox users are generally more tech savvy and privacy aware so someone would have probably find out if Firefox is lying about the encryption part too. Even if that’s not the case a whistleblower would have probably done it.

        • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
          22·
          2 days ago

          my point is that all terms and conditions are subject to change without prior notice to you and your continued use of the product and or service is agreement of the terms that can, and will change

          • Voxel@feddit.uk
            1·
            21 hours ago

            That would be a violation of EU law. You cannot change such agreements without notice.

          • Ismael@bohio.icu
            5·
            2 days ago

            You are not wrong but at that point it applies to any and all services out there. Companies typically send an email notifying the change in their TOS and post it in their blog/website. Depending on the change I’ve seen that they even say that users have a deadline to react accordingly. Firefox has its controversies but I have no reasonable suspicion that they will pull that risky move of spying on that encrypted sync process and go against their whole mission and user base.