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?

  • LittleBobbyTables@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    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

    • checksout@piefed.socialOP
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      2 days ago

      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?