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Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions (linuxiac.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if that would be viable technically.

They might be able to make requestable the connection requests to outside sources (which I expect is something many extensions use, even those without data collection), but whether those requests relate to data collection is not something that can be determined programmatically.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, all access to outside sources is blocked by default and users are asked on a per URL basis with the author manually requesting each URL access including a reason – with occasional manual validation from Mozilla staff.