Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site

Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by GeekyBear on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:11PM (#36604580)

> No informed consent or prompt to opt-in.

Are users giving informed consent for Google's ability to remotely disable Android apps or Apple's ability to do the same on iOS?

The ability to disable malware as it is discovered seems to be a very common pattern.

If you include the bundled malware scanners on MacOS and Windows, it's taking place on them as well.

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by ezfe on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:37PM (#36605035)

Disabling apps is different from disabling non-verified extensions. The linked article addresses that Mozilla already has the capability to handle discovered malware, which is separate from this issue.

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by JohnFen on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:20PM (#36604747)

> Are users giving informed consent for Google's ability to remotely disable Android apps or Apple's ability to do the same on iOS?

No, but we expect Google to be user-hostile. We expect the opposite of Mozilla.

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by okasaki on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:56PM (#36606988)

That's an expectation that hasn't been sensible for a decade...

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Re:Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on... by Hizonner on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:03PM (#36606263)

If I want a browser that acts like it comes from Google, then I will use fucking Chrome. Lots of idiotic user-hostile things are "common patterns".

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