Should I use firefox sync in librewolf, Is it private enough?
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Should I use firefox sync in librewolf, Is it private enough?
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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?

@ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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4•17d

Last time I heard about the possibility it seemed a bit hacky, did it get easier by now?

@smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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5•17d

No idea - this is my firefox sync NixOS config, in its entirety:

  age.secrets.ffsync.rekeyFile = secrets.ffsync;
  services.firefox-syncserver = {
    enable = true;
    secrets = config.age.secrets.ffsync.path;
    settings.hostname = "localhost";

    singleNode = {
      enable = true;
      hostname = "0.0.0.0";
      capacity = 2;
    };
  };
tiz
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1•16d

I wonder if it still needs account management on Mozilla server or on your own. May I?

@smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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1•16d

Yeaaaaaaahh the auth thing is really, really complicated to selfhost. There’s a docker project out there that apparently makes it possible, but… No idea. FOr the time being I still use FF’s auth - that’s still an improvement though: Mozilla knows that I am logging in / from what kind of device, but not the content or amount of what I sync.

@krigo666@lemmy.world
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2•17d

Have a look at YunoHost.

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