Why has Mozilla set up Firefox Sync as an anti-feature?
Firefox sync was initially written as a feature that you could easily set up at home on your own server. This keeps the data local, secure, and trusted. With every iteration of upgrades Mozilla's development team has ostensibly made it more and more difficult to configure it locally, requiring the data instead to be hosted directly by Mozilla. So what the hell is happening at Mozilla? Have they reneged on their responsibilities to the FOSS community? Telefonica? Pocket? Streaming my history/bookmarks/etc to an insecure 3rd party server? Should I focus my efforts on a legitimately free browser like IceCat?
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hi, if you don't trust mozilla to host your sync data that leaves your device already encrypted and the only way to decrypt them is by a key derived from the password only you know, you can of course still run your own sync server: https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html
Thanks for the response philipp. Sync server integration no longer works with Mozilla firefox 47.0.1, even after setting: services.sync.username services.sync.tokenServerURI identity.sync.tokenserver.uri
Also, please read: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/bring-firefox-sync-back/103
Ultimately, the priorities of the Mozilla Corp/Foundation appear to be around corporate partnerships rather than user freedom. This is a serous issue for both, specifically around market share. I've spent the last 3 hours researching alternative browsers, and I guarantee I'm not the only one.
I earnestly hope that Mozilla reconsiders it's position on firefox sync specifically, because it's a great feature. Breaking its usability to force hosting @Mozilla is a terrible, awful policy.
kbaegis said
I earnestly hope that Mozilla reconsiders it's position on firefox sync specifically, because it's a great feature. Breaking its usability to force hosting @Mozilla is a terrible, awful policy.
there is no such policy by mozilla of course. if you are having issues with setting up your own sync server, please refer to the help channels at the bottom of the documentation page that i've provided before.