It’s not even open source. Being in Europe doesn’t automatically grant you the privacy, let alone the free software rights.
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numeral_paver555@lemmy.cato
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Google’s Requirement For All Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down Open Source App Store F-Droid
2·3 months agoThat patch is manually added. Moreover, some apps have hard binding with their id, making the situation more complicated. Kiwi is not on f-droid at all. They host their own version. It might be easier for the app authors to do it. But f-droid maintainers don’t have this capacity.
numeral_paver555@lemmy.cato
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Google’s Requirement For All Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down Open Source App Store F-Droid
3·3 months agoThe thing is that changing the app id requires too much patching to thousands of apps, and the users will not be able to migrate from the current f-droid version.
numeral_paver555@lemmy.cato
Linux@lemmy.ml•Mozilla VPN Linux App is Now Available on Flathub
2·4 months agoGood to know that they have first-class Linux support.
For those who haven’t read the article, the suggested solution is for advertisers to obtain similar user IDs by using their own user list; it has nothing to do with gathering user data from the browser.
It is utilized in conjunction with other differential privacy technologies that gather user information and classify users.
In fairness, Mozilla needs a means of making money if anyone hopes Firefox or Librewolf to exist in the long run.
numeral_paver555@lemmy.cato
Firefox@lemmy.ml•Mozilla adds stupid AI stuff with horrible T&C
0·1 year agoIn OP’s screenshot, you are only going to agree to Mozilla’s privacy policy and FakeSpot’s TOS. So the FakeSpot’s privacy policy is not involved.
https://github.com/dockur/windows or https://github.com/TibixDev/winboat