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Probably by mistake though
No their engineering is great. But it’s their management who has no clue what they are doing in Mozilla.
Which is what I think the issue is about.
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Dude I misread “Mozilla to require data collection in addons”, almost dropped my phone
They should do manual testing to confirn/deny this, in a mystery customer sort of way.
They should make it a requestable permission.
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.
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
I believe it was already required to disclose data collection, except you had to build the UI for that yourself. This makes it easier to comply, and more recognisable for us users.
So I can just declare ‘none’ and happily collect data?
Or is there actually some type of control?
Let’s hope it’s not automatically on
How about Data-Collection Ban in All Firefox Extensions, Mozilla? How about that?
Except most extensions need to collect some data to work. Unless you want firefox to die, this isn’t a great idea.
