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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by vetinari on Saturday December 02, 2023 @12:37PM (#38500249)
> Firefox extensions don't need to be listed in the web store, but they must be signed by Mozilla, no exceptions.

There is. But you must be running firefox on Linux, on specific distribution (i.e. Debian or Fedora), built by that distribution and the extension has to be installed system-wide by root. Then the signature won't be enforced.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday December 02, 2023 @12:45PM (#38500325)
So in a sense you're not running Firefox anymore, you're running a derivative from your distro which modified the source code. (I do appreciate that they do this, however.)
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