I am really happy about this announcement from #Mozilla: a free, completely local, #translation engine. Also you can run the training pipeline yourself. And, it can translate your input in forms to the language of the site. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/

What would Firefox be if it was private by default?

It would be LibreWolf.

https://librewolf.net/

#web #browser #privacy #mozilla

Nice, the #EU gave #Mozilla money to develop an offline, privacy friendly translation engine, and it's been released!

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/

No wonder #Thunderbird requires cookies! Really it’s the #Firefox engine (dating back to the #Mozilla suite, now #Seamonkey) underneath.

Fucking hell, as some of you have pointed out in the comments, also, it’s tied to my router. I have the same router I had in Malmö. If this is not a GDPR violation, I have no idea what is.

So Mozilla – Defender of Privacy™ – is storing my location history, tied to my router, without ever having gotten consent from me to do so.

This is a fucking scandal.

#privacy #location #data #mozilla #surveillanceCapitalism

Recently, there has been misinformation about #Mozilla's browser #Firefox claiming that a new feature called #FirefoxSuggest would send any address bar inputs to advertising companies by default.

This is not true.

In reality, all sponsored suggestions are given offline by default, meaning that no additional user data is sent anywhere. Online suggestions are strictly opt-in.

Please do not spread false information.

🔗 https://support.mozilla.org/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-suggest
🔗 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/d488f68d845a87cc107612b667951152c34fb116/browser/components/urlbar/UrlbarPrefs.jsm#543
🔗 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1727907