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How good/bad is Firefox sync. (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically I am using mull on android and librewolf on linux.I want to use firefox sync or something line that for syncing.So how good Firefox sync is, in privacy point on view. I am not anonymity paranoid I just want privacy so basically what do they collect and for what?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

As others have said, it's quite good on privacy. For the truly paranoid, IIRC you can even self-host the sync server.

From the security perspective of privacy, do make sure to use a good password for the Mozilla account, the account password is also the encryption key for the E2E encryption.