Drew DeVault 12/16/2017

Firefox is on a slippery slope

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The article criticizes Mozilla for increasingly integrating promotional content into Firefox, culminating in a recent incident where an ad-based extension for the TV show Mr. Robot was silently sideloaded into users' browsers via the 'experiments' system. The author argues this violates the fundamental purpose of a web browser, breaks user trust, and represents a dangerous slippery slope towards turning Firefox into an advertising platform.

Firefox is on a slippery slope

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