Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use, after recent changes with overly broad language about user data sparked user backlash
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Mozilla is removing Do Not Track from Firefox in version 135, the first major browser to add and now remove it, saying few websites honor the privacy preference
Will Chrome, Edge, and Other Privacy-Focused Browsers follow this move? — Mozilla is removing the Do Not Track (DNT) setting from the Firefox browser.
The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate the US' net neutrality rules, expanding government oversight of ISPs and aiming to protect consumer access to the internet
Oh right, there wasn't one. Telecomms are fuming about the restoration of rules that prevent them from gouging their customers. Us. … Chuck Darwin / @cdarwin@c.im : FCC votes to restore net neutrali...
Mozilla and CheckFirst: Apple, Google, Meta, and others' ad transparency efforts are a work in progress, months after the EU's DSA mandated a searchable library
Efforts by tech giants to be more transparent about the ads they run are — at very best — still a work in progress …
Mozilla announces Monitor Plus, a $14/month US service that scans 190+ data broker sites and automatically submits requests for removal of the user's data
Mozilla announces Monitor Plus, a $14/month US service that scans 190+ data broker sites and automatically submits requests for removal of the user's data
Mozilla today is introducing a new subscription service that will help people locate and remove their personal and sensitive information from data broker websites around the web.
Mozilla criticizes Apple's plans to restrict BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps, forcing “Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations”
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Mozilla criticizes Apple's plans to restrict BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps, forcing “Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations”
Apple's new rules in the European Union mean browsers like Firefox can finally use their own engines on iOS.
Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Edge plan to stop trusting new certificates from TrustCor, after a report revealed TrustCor's ties to a US defense contractor
Joseph Menn / Washington Post : Tweets: @reedmideke Tweets: Reed Mideke / @reedmideke : After providing wildly evasive answers to the people who decide whether the whole internet should trust them, @...
Firefox turns its Total Cookie Protection feature on by default on desktop, after launching it as opt-in in 2021
All Firefox users on desktop will now be protected by the browser's Total Cookie Protection feature by default. Mozilla calls it the browser's “strongest privacy protection to date …