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buckminster
on Aug 30, 2018
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Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking
It appears to be blocked by uMatrix but the author notes further down that firefox is silently ignoring the block. This is very concerning.
zaarn
on Aug 31, 2018
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It's not for malicious reasons, FF blocks extensions from fucking around with various core mozilla sites like the Addon store and the Testpilot plugins. Otherwise malicious plugins could do a lot of damage there.
buckminster
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Sure. And FF could achieve that without misleading me.
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