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Firefox to Display Extension Recommendations - gHacks Tech News

Rejected submission by chromas (from IRC) at 2018-09-05 07:36:02
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If you weren't annoyed enough at your browser constantly nagging about location and notifications how about extension alerts?

gHacks Technology News [ghacks.net]:

I dislike and avoid whatever extension which follows the user otherwise than with a local database *or* without the user’s request, which means calling a dedicated server on every page/site visited by the user. These extensions flourish nowadays. A simple utility such as providing a site’s IP : you have extensions which provide it by retrieving it from a server systematically, others which phone to their servers when the user asks for it, others which have the database included in the extension. I’m OK with an extension retrieving the information *when* I ask for it, not systematically. I can’t bear the “assistant”, “your personal assistance” approach. “If I need you I’ll call you, thanks for your help but keep out of my legs otherwise” is my state of mind.


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