All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox on Aug 21

Re:All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox ... by eitland on Saturday August 17, 2019 @04:05AM (#20722828)

By treating all users as hopelessly incompetent we are making great progress towards a society that is less tech literate than 10 or 20 years ago.

Nice work guys, keep it up!

Seriously: it is one thing to add airbags, seatbelts and all kinds of crash protections but at the point where you are geofencing the cars, weld the hood and limit max speed to 60km/h you know it isn't about safety even of each of those can be proposed as a safety feature for smaller or larger parts of the population.

It is about control. Or I'm tempted to say it could also be about software designers who are more nannies than engineers and user advocates.

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Re:All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox ... by nimih on Saturday August 17, 2019 @04:23AM (#20722876)

Please don’t lose sight of the fact that this discussion is occurring in the context of Mozilla reprimanding an extension developer for not putting a big enough warning label on what they view as an extremely dangerous—but ultimately allowed—action.

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