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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by blippage on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:03AM (#28783872)
That seems like pure naivete. Two can play that game.

A little over a year or so ago I downloaded Firefox. It kept bugging me for updates. But I didn't want these pestering updates. Erstwhile, I could just disable updating with a single unchecking of a box. But they changed it to make it almost impossible to disable updates. I never put enough effort into figuring it out.

Firefox is getting just like Microsoft, Apple, FaceBook, GNOME, etc. "We set the policy, it's our software, you're just the user."

I switched to Debian, which managed to sort all this nonsense out, thankfully.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by roca on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:23AM (#28784012)
It is extremely dangerous to use a browser that is not fully up-to-date.
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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by rightbyte on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:49AM (#28784220)
Security patches and general updates are not distinct anymore. You might aswell end up with more bugs by updating.
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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by Nextgrid on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:24AM (#28784022)
It should still be the user's choice.
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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by roca on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:29AM (#28784062)
I'm using Firefox Nightly and it lets me manually control when updates are installed.

Alternatively, on Linux you can use the distro Firefox package and control its updates that way.

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