i have answered in separate comment that you can run mcp clients and servers in windows.
but if you really wanna polish your linux skills, go throw youeself in the swimming pool and learn to swim by downloading the latest ubuntu desktop iso and flashing it to a flash drive using balena etcher, then boot it from bios to install it to your laptop.
will it be hard? yes of course. will you learn a lot? absolutely. can you revert back to windows anytime? yes, just google for "github massgravel" and it will link you to windows / office installers (using their license activators is optional, wink wink).
bro you can use mcp clients and servers in windows.
for example if you are using claude desktop on windows, or cline/roo on vscode, or claudecode on terminal, those are all mcp clients.
claudecode for example is just javascript code from npm that can be run by nodejs which works on windows.
on mcp servers, most of them are written in javascript too. if you see anything with npx, it means its an executable compiled javascript code from npm, and your windows can run it as long as you have nodejs installed.
I am still an amateur but it is really a pain in the ass to setup every time I have tried, and I can't really find valuable ressource online to start with.
If you know some that could be interesting I would be a pleasure to read them.
if you see any mcp installation with python or docker too, i believe it should work, as long as you have python or docker installed. docker will require WSL windows subsystem for linux so just google it and i hope your lappy supports it.
long answer, firefox have a strong community and solid product but lacking a sustainable business model and a comeptitive pr team. their tech is really good, the people in charge just really suck.
The controversy was misinformation, and the parent post wasn't even what the controversy was. People thought FF had been doing it before. The reality is, as I understand, they just updated their terms to cover all possible legal issues - including that some things you command Firefox to do involves using your data.
> including that some things you command Firefox to do involves using your data.
Mozilla has never used the data you upload/send via Firefox to non-Mozilla websites (as it should be), and they shouldn't have that permission just as Epson the company shouldn't have the right to use for any purpose a paper marked as classified just because some fed employee sent a digital copy of it to an Epson printer.
And they don’t have that permission. Why is everyone skipping over the part of the sentence that specifies that this is only “for the purpose of doing as you request”. As you request! This is night and day to any other TOS I’ve ever read.
Seriously. Imagine the despair at Mozilla as no matter what they do, people they help and who support FOSS and privacy, tear them apart - seemingly out of habit, or like it's the cool thing to do.
"for the purpose of doing as you request" is still permission for using my own content, no matter how limited the scope they want to make it look like. It's not Mozilla Corp itself that is processing my inputs behind the scenes when I upload my photos to Imgur, is it? It's my own locally installed copy of Firefox.
See my reply to the other comment. They still have permission, and it doesn't matter how limited they try to scope it. It should be none because they have no business having a license over my own content I upload to non-Mozilla websites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43263232
Except for the specific cases where their Privacy Notice does give them permission to collect and sell user information, such as collecting information about what topics users are making search queries about.
Excerpts from the Privacy Notice that I have read, and attempted to get you to read:
> Mozilla processes certain technical and interaction data, such as how many searches you perform, how many sponsored suggestions you see and whether you interact with them. Mozilla's partners receive de-identified information about interactions with the suggestions they've served.
> Depending on your location, Mozilla derives the high level category (e.g., travel, shopping) of your search from keywords in that query, in order to understand the types and number of searches being made.
> Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for “Boston”) and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content.
Your claim "That data doesn't leave the user's computer" is simply not true. Mozilla isn't selling empty files to their advertising partners. The only true and valid defense you've put up for Mozilla in the past week is that they're trying to anonymize the data before they sell it, but that's not nearly as strong an argument as you seem to think it is.
> Nothing personal or valuable leaves your computer. Maybe the location queries, but I expect they are anonymized.
You said "That data doesn't leave the user's computer". It does. You may not consider it personal or valuable and may trust Mozilla's anonymization to be sufficient, but well-written privacy laws rightly do not grant Mozilla (or anyone less trustworthy than Mozilla) that kind of wiggle room.
