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Re: Identity Theft



On 2021-12-21 at 09:10, Tim Woodall wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Dec 2021, tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote:
> 
>> Le 21/12/2021 ? 14:24, Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE a ?crit?:
>> 
>> It is the second one, "Noscript" in one word [1]. Several
>> look-alike have spawn over the years. I also use Umatrix [2], but
>> it is more complex.
>>
>> For Firefox:
>> [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/noscript/
>> [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/umatrix/
>>
>> At least one of those is packaged in Debian.
> 
> Will umatrix still work in firefox 91?
> 
> Certainly didn't work for me in android v92.

Is uMatrix on the whitelist of extensions that are allowed on the mobile
version of Firefox?

Some good number of releases ago, Mozilla completely redid the mobile
version of Firefox, and in the process dropped support for most of the
extension base - as in, they restricted the allowed extensions to only
those in a defined list, and started that list out with a grand total of
*nine* items. (See [1] for some at-the-time commentary on this.)

I understand that in the time since then they've gradually expanded the
list of allowed extensions, but at nothing like a rapid pace, and with
no sign that they even intend to ever let the broad scope of extensions
be installable (much less usable) for mobile-device Firefox again.

It's always possible that uMatrix is one of the whitelisted extensions,
but I wouldn't be even slightly surprised if it weren't.

[1]
https://palant.info/2020/08/31/a-grim-outlook-on-the-future-of-browser-add-ons/

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