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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Security concerns” is such a bullshit reason. If an add on is such a security concern, why host it in the first place?

I’m disappointed Mozilla is going down this path, but not surprised.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To me it sounds more like they plan on blocking all addons (other than some whitelist of "trusted" addons) on important pages (like the Google login page maybe?).