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Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions (linuxiac.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] 55 points 1 year ago (6 children)

They should do manual testing to confirn/deny this, in a mystery customer sort of way.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They should make it a requestable permission.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm not sure if that would be viable technically.

    They might be able to make requestable the connection requests to outside sources (which I expect is something many extensions use, even those without data collection), but whether those requests relate to data collection is not something that can be determined programmatically.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Yes, all access to outside sources is blocked by default and users are asked on a per URL basis with the author manually requesting each URL access including a reason – with occasional manual validation from Mozilla staff.

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