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Firefox 128.0 Release Notes (www.mozilla.org)

submitted 3 months ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinion, but I use Firefox because I care about privacy and the spirit of the Mozilla manifesto, and this new enabled-by-default advertisement feature snuck into the browser is at odds with both.

Mozilla never even gave their users a warning in their browser, which is even worse than how Chrome handles it (also enabled by default, but they at least included a notification with a corpo-speak justification that includes similar language about "options" and "privacy".

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

I suppose. They do launch the release page after an update, which has a link to the release notes. The release notes link to the page I linked, and that page describes how it works and how to disable it, which is just a setting in the privacy section.

So while I'd like it a bit more front-and-center (i.e. display it on that release page), I don't think they're trying to hide anything here.