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Re:Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017 by mintplant on Saturday November 25, 2017 @01:17PM (#15777088)
I'm aware of a research project to see if reliable identification of "fake news" websites is possible, but there's no "blocking" coming to Firefox. That would violate point 5 of the Mozilla Manifesto.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

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Re:Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017 by userbinator on Saturday November 25, 2017 @03:04PM (#15777698)
That would violate point 5 of the Mozilla Manifesto.

They can interpret that however they want. For example, you can always "shape the Internet and [your] own experiences on it", including removing any blocking, adding things they remove, etc... just get the source code for Firefox and make all the changes you want.

It's all a bunch of vague marketing doublespeak anyway, with around as much power over what Mozilla does as the US constitution has on the US government.

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