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The new data transmission permissions [for Firefox addons] seem to be misleading to users (discourse.mozilla.org)
submitted 4 hours ago by mschae@discuss.mschae23.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago

I swear that this is intentionally made. It wouldn't surprise me if the companies that sell our data pushed or even pay for this verbiage in order to scare regular users out of using these helpful extensions.

Yeah, I know I sound paranoid as fuck, but can you really blame me?

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 6 points 1 hour ago

Good to know that this is going to happen.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Well this is indeed misleading. It was actually great to see the dev of "return YouTube dislikes" chime in too since I disabled the addon because I saw the new permissions and noped the fuck out

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago

Same!