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by nadont8 2827 days ago
>Suddenly, you are no longer fighting your browser.

I mean, if you're okay with Pocket showing you ads in your home page, your browsing data being sent to Cliqz, addons that publicise the "Mr Robot" TV show being installed without your consent, Mozilla pages that use Google Analytics scripts that cannot be blocked, then Firefox is a solid choice.
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hvis 2827 days ago
None of that happens in the current Firefox releases.
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nadont8 2827 days ago
That's a lie. You are still shown Pocket ads and AMO still uses Google Analytics which cannot be blocked (extensions cannot run on addons.mozilla.org).

About the rest: true, it's in the recent past, but Mozilla love to shoot themselves in the foot, so they will keep doing that kind of stuff.

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hvis 2824 days ago
I don't see any Pocket ads.

As for analytics, they need to use something. And disallowing extensions to run on addons.mozilla.org is a solid technical decision.

> but Mozilla love to shoot themselves in the foot

As opposed to some other influential tech company which always does the right thing?

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teddyfrozevelt 2827 days ago
An addon that is not enabled by default, doesn't reference what it's supposed to be "advertising", and will only do anything once going to a specific page after it's already been enabled doesn't seem like a very good advertisement.
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