• Firefox for Android is reintroducing an open ecosystem of extensions, set to be available on December 14, with a dedicated extension page for easy discovery. • Mozilla has released a preview of the upcoming extensions, including popular ones like Bitwarden’s password manager and AdGuard’s ad blocker. • Firefox aims to gain an advantage over rivals like Google Chrome by supporting a wide range of third-party extensions on Android, while Firefox extensions availability on iOS remains uncertain.

  • baatliwala@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So is there a reason you bitching that a privacy invasive company is being by a less privacy invasive one so the product can be less privacy invasive? I can’t understand this weird “Oh I’m so smart” gotcha.

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      exactly if the other company had bought firefox, now i could be concerned

    • LWD@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It seems you have made up a story:

      so the product can be less privacy invasive?

      Do you have anything to back that story up, or are you simply trying to refute the truth with fiction

      • aleq@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Right before the Mozilla buyout, Fakespot added a clause to their TOS giving them the right to give user data to Mozilla.

        There’s one possible interpretation of that, which would be my guess, that this was somehow necessary as part of the purchase. Before purchasing a company the company being purchased has to show the buyer what their assets are and give them a fair and accurate representation of what the company is. It’s possible that this clause was necessary in order to enable this.

        • LWD@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          That’s an extremely generous interpretation, especially coupled with the fact that the abysmal privacy practices outlined by the TOS have not changed under Mozilla’s ownership.

          When you wear rose tinted glasses, red flags just look like flags.