This is why I use Pale Moon, WaterFox or ungoogled chromium or older versions of things “sometimes even Netscape”
The last truly good, clean and uncucked FireFox was way back at 3.6.28 before they fired Brendan Eich for solely SJW/Political reasons and started jumping 10 versions every month among other things… I see the writing on the wall with things like this years before others and jump ship.
https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html
[quote]For a long time, it was just setting the default search provider to Google in exchange for a beefy stipend. Later, paid links in your new tab page were added. Then, a proprietary service, Pocket, was bundled into the browser - not as an addon, but a hardcoded feature. In the past few days, we?ve discovered an advertisement in the form of browser extension was sideloaded into user browsers. Whoever is leading these decisions at Mozilla needs to be stopped.
Here?s a breakdown of what happened a few days ago. Mozilla and Fox Entertainment did a ?collaboration? (read: promotion) for the TV show Mr. Robot. It involved sideloading a sketchy browser extension which will invert text that matches a list of Mr. Robot-related keywords like ?fsociety?, ?robot?, ?undo?, and ?fuck?, and does a number of other things like adding an HTTP header to certain sites you visit.
This extension was sideloaded into browsers via the ?experiments? feature. Not only are these experiments enabled by default, but updates have been known to re-enable it if you turn it off. The advertisement addon shows up like this on your addon page, and was added to Firefox stable. If I saw this before I knew what was going on, I would think my browser was compromised! Apparently it was a mistake that this showed up on the addon page, though - it was supposed be be silently sideloaded into your browser!
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