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Mozilla: Firefox Tooling, Privacy Drivel, Slop Plagiarism, and "How to block ads on Firefox"
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Firefox Tooling Announcements: Happy BMO Push Day! (20260312.1)
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Mozilla ☛ The web should remain anonymous by default
The unique architecture of the web enables a much higher degree of user privacy than exists on other platforms. Many factors contribute to this, but an essential one is that you don’t need to log in to start browsing. Sharing details about yourself with a website is an optional step you can take when you have reason to do so, rather than the price of admission.
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Mozilla ☛ Under the hood: The AI powering Firefox’s Shake to Summarize [Ed: Mozilla plagiarising people's work and filtering them through GAFAM is a disgrace to Firefox; Mozilla help scammy companies fake "Demand" for slop and guess who pays Mozilla to do this]
We recently released a feature in the Firefox iOS mobile app called “Shake to Summarize”. The reception was remarkably positive, earning an honorable mention on Time Magazine’s best inventions of 2025.
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[Repeat] Ruben Schade ☛ Folders for RSS feeds in Thunderbird
If you haven’t configured Thunderbird for RSS yet, you need to create a “Feed Account”, which acts and looks like a regular email inbox. Go to Account Settings, and click New Account. From the dropdown, click Feed Account. Go through the wizard, though there really isn’t much to configure: [...]
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Don Marti ☛ How to block ads on Firefox
Get uBlock Origin from the Firefox add-ons site. That’s about it.
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LinuxConfig ☛ How to Install Firefox Without Snap on Ubuntu 26.04