Following video of thelinuxexperiment and all the news against mozilla.
I finally switched to librewolf completely.
I exported and imported all kind of data too.
But I want to use ffsync only to keep my mobile (android) in sync with my pc (want to sync history also so flocuss etc will not work)
So I want to enable ffsync in librewolf
I have seen faq but as mozilla recently introduced their terms of usage (and all the hate against it)
Is it still private enough to use ffsync? what can be downsides?
You say you’ve already read Librewolf’s FAQ, so I can skip over what they’ve provided in their response.
The only possible downside I could see would be that your encrypted data is stored on Mozilla servers. Which isn’t a very major downside–it’s properly end-to-end-encrypted. This is mentioned both by Mozilla themselves, as well as in the Librewolf docs. This is the only downside I can see right now, but for the paranoid, it might be worth looking toward the future; who knows, maybe some day, Firefox will randomly decide to disable E2EE for Firefox sync. That could be a potential downside down the road. But I find that to be pretty unrealistic… I honestly can’t see a lot of ways for Mozilla to screw this up.
If the prospect of relying on Mozilla servers still makes you uncomfortable, then you can self-host a sync server, but it’s not exactly a quick setup. They do provide a Docker method of installation, at least. The sync server code is found here, along with installation instructions for self-hosting and how to connect it to Firefox/Librewolf/other derivatives: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
I’ve set up the sync server but it is definitely a pain in the ass.
So I should use ffsync for now i guess. Is there any info regarding what unencrypted metadata they can link to me i use ff account?