mozilla does good things every once in a while
How about Data-Collection Ban in All Firefox Extensions, Mozilla? How about that?
Except most extensions need to collect some data to work. Unless you want firefox to die, this isn’t a great idea.
I believe it was already required to disclose data collection, except you had to build the UI for that yourself. This makes it easier to comply, and more recognisable for us users.
I really like Mozilla Firefox… Keeps getting better. :-)
Hey did the patient on apple‘s crappy idea expire already?
They should do manual testing to confirn/deny this, in a mystery customer sort of way.
They have the Recommended Extensions program, where they do that for a subset of the available extensions.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-program
Calm down guys you’re asking for an actual feature, now… this is gonna need like five years of extensive study and testing.
They should make it a requestable permission.
I’m not sure if that would be viable technically.
They might be able to make requestable the connection requests to outside sources (which I expect is something many extensions use, even those without data collection), but whether those requests relate to data collection is not something that can be determined programmatically.
Yes, all access to outside sources is blocked by default and users are asked on a per URL basis with the author manually requesting each URL access including a reason – with occasional manual validation from Mozilla staff.
