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Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site (support.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 year ago by spiritedpause to c/firefox
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[–] FearTheCron 1 points 1 year ago

This looks like a reasonable feature from what I can tell. There are tons of scammy extensions that scrape data. This looks like they are just trying to limit the damage when your uncle installs some random shopping extension that logs all the pages he visits. Plus, the feature can be disabled by the user if they know what they are doing.