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Karna@lemmy.ml to Firefox@lemmy.ml · 16 days ago

Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions

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Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions

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Karna@lemmy.ml to Firefox@lemmy.ml · 16 days ago
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    They should do manual testing to confirn/deny this, in a mystery customer sort of way.

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      They have the Recommended Extensions program, where they do that for a subset of the available extensions.

      https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-program

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      They should make it a requestable permission.

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        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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