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>For our users in the US and Canada, Firefox can now save, manage, and auto-fill credit card information for you... Can anyone explain why this feature would n
by 0xffff2 6y ago
>For our users in the US and Canada, Firefox can now save, manage, and auto-fill credit card information for you...
Can anyone explain why this feature would need to be region-locked? Are they doing something more than simply storing CC info locally?
- reader_mode 6y agoMaybe it's synced with FF account ?
- OJFord 6y agoProbably compliance - haven't/yet/don't want to confirm that it's adhering to data protection/similar laws in multiple jurisdictions?
- gostsamo 6y agoI'd suspect the need of local partnerships to curate the content.
- throwaway2048 6y agoCurate what content? How?
- gostsamo 6y agoWhat recommendations show up. Someone needs to read the articles in order to recommend them, don't they? It'd be better if this someone is someone local who has the context. Edit: The heck, I haven't read carefully the OP. Thought that the question is about Pocket.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoI'd guess primarily language, the status page says their testing to ensure the right fields get filled.
- andybak 6y agoWe speak a kind of English over here in the UK too.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThere are enough differences that could cause issues in form recognition, particularly with things like addresses, that it makes sense to separate the two for testing.
- gpm 6y agoCanada is about as similar to the UK as it is to the US in this regard.
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- sroussey 6y agoLocalization. Think US zip code, for example.
- OJFord 6y agoLocalisation has such (a) cruel spelling(s).
- jcranmer 6y agoSmart people just spell it l10n.
- contradictioned 6y agoHandwriting the "one" of ten: 1 or l?
- Y_Y 6y agolIOn? Like the big cat?
- Semiapies 6y agoThe better question: why does it need a gradual rollout?
- ifmpx 6y agoI'm more interested in knowing how they determine where I am. Do this feature require a GPS-enabled device to activate?
- roryokane 6y agoFirefox already has code to determine your location, since it supports the Geolocation API for JavaScript (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation...). I’m not sure how Firefox implements it, but on a device without a GPS, programs could determine your location from the list of nearby Wi-Fi access points or from your IP address.