Only way to disable this is to open about:config and change some value. Why this has no dismiss button?

There is couple more settings that are on by default and i hate those; but mostly those are subjective. However who wants 80px long “SIGN IN SO WE STORE YOUR BOOKMARKS, HISTORY IN OUR SERVERS” stuff on their screen?

  • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
    16·
    11 days ago

    Firefox sync is end to end encrypted by the way: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sync

    It is technically also self hostable, but I gave up when I was investigating. Hosting the sync server itself wasn’t too bad, but I couldn’t figure out how to also self host the account server, which is also needed to have the sync process entirely based on my own infrastructure.

    • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      10 days ago

      Urgh, I was considering setting up a self hosted Firefox sync. I don’t use syncing at all currently but thought it might be useful.

      I didn’t know the account system was a separate dependency. Hosting that seems a bit of burden so I think I will just stay not using sync.

      • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
        2·
        10 days ago

        I use syncing through Mozilla’s servers. Part of what killed my motivation for a self hosted setup was realizing that Mozilla sync is e2ee.

    • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
      33·
      10 days ago

      Second that. I gave up also, and thought that mozilla could’ve made that part easier - if they wanted to.