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Firefox no longer allows extensions to have full control over requests in Manifest V3, despite their repeated public statements. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1786919 They have merged a change that makes it impossible to access and download certain website content the user is viewing and wants to process. Now that Firefox has introduced this limitation without offering an alternative, it is now much ea…
Ah so this is why they messed up the overflow menu. Kind of hoping I can actually order the extensions at some point though, it's a bit messy if you can no longer control which extensions are in the overflow menu or what order they're in.
extensions.unifiedExtensions.enabled: false
Firefox no longer allows extensions to have full control over requests in Manifest V3, despite their repeated public statements. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1786919 They have merged a change that makes it impossible to access and download certain website content the user is viewing and wants to process. Now that Firefox has introduced this limitation without offering an alternative, it is now much ea…
No fucking way - I guess its time to setup pihole again
Firefox is going to continue to have more powerful blocking features compared to what a DNS based approach like pihole can provide.
Meanwhile in Firefox for Android: absolutely nothing is going on with extensions, because Mozilla disabled nearly all of them.
Meanwhile in Firefox for Android: absolutely nothing is going on with extensions, because Mozilla disabled nearly all of them.
I'd rather use the version of Firefox that doesn't crash more frequently, but that's the trade-off I gotta make at the moment.
I had to chuckle from mentally constructing a character that would fit all of this.
This is currently impossible on Firefox as they forget extension loaded from local files to be removed after. The force everyone who wants to run their own code on their own machine persistently to file for a developer code signing certificate, essentially copying Apple's approach to marketplace management.
Further, this limitation makes auditing the code of extensions you install from third party sources effectively impossible: I don't see any way to stop automatic updates in settings, so at any point the third party code you've installed and enabled to execute on any website you visit can just change out from under you workout warning.
This is all trivial in Edge.
It is difficult to understand where the HN vulpephillia comes from.
Need we play such language games? It's "ad blocking". People use those extensions to block ads. If you asked the average user about their privacy preserving add-on, or their content blocker they would probably be confused. Yes, obviously I understand the privacy dimensions of advertising, and I realize that this is all in the service of the good guys and against the bad guys, but that shouldn't affect our response to…
> If ads give you the ick, then one distinction we’ve made around ad blockers has been especially crucial to privacy-lovers everywhere.
Need we play such language games? It's "ad blocking". People use those extensions to block ads. If you asked the average user about their privacy preserving add-on, or their content blocker they would probably be confused. Yes, obviously I understand the privacy dimensions of advertising, and I realize that this is all in the service of the good guys and against the bad guys, but that shouldn't affect our response to…
> It's "ad blocking". People use those extensions to block ads. I use them, and DNS filters, to block stalking. They just happen to block adverts too because it is practically impossible to separate the two ATM. I'll accept ads based on the page I'm looking at and my rough geographical position, but I don't see why I should put up with being followed and profiled everywhere I go.