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Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 121 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

This is a great change. I wonder how long before the hate brigade comes along to complain.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yup, sounds great to me. I could see a world in which it becomes a bad thing because they try to enforce it by pulling a Google and blocking users from installing extensions that aren't through their official add-on store, but as it is, it's hard to see any reasonable criticism.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's not clear whether it's a useless disclosure or enforced by the API.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Some extensions have a verified/recommended by Mozilla seal of approval, so these extensions would be checked by a human to see that they comply.

    Obviously they can't check every update of every extension in existence, but even just the above is an improvement and certainly not useless.

    I don't think this could be enforced by the API without also seriously limiting what extensions can do, which people would go crazy about if they did.

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