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For the sake of Firefox users, I hope you are right. There's been complaints it flips back on after Firefox updates, so your privacy is at the whims of Firefox.
by privacywall 9y ago
For the sake of Firefox users, I hope you are right. There's been complaints it flips back on after Firefox updates, so your privacy is at the whims of Firefox.
Fun fact: Firefox just pushed out the Looking Glass add-on to users without notice or consent this past weekend.
- Vinnl 9y agoIn the case of it flipping back on, you're at the whims of bugs - just like with all software. If there's any organisation I'd trust, it's Mozilla - if only because if they make mistakes, there is a lot of pressure for them to correct this (case in point: Looking Glass). Note that Mozilla pushes code without explicit consent for all parts of it all the time - they're called software updates. The problem in this case was that it was for a potential feature that very few people cared for, and that it showed up as a scary extension in the extension list. That definitely should not have happened, but it's not a privacy violation.