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@kbin.socialI'm actually pissed. I and many other users on the forum got an email from Chris Hayes on this:
Hello,
This is a friendly email to make you aware that your personal email address is currently visible to the whole internet via Mozilla's Discourse forum. It will show up in Google Search results. The affected email is the one that this email was sent to.
Many users may not be aware that their email address is publicly visible and Mozilla has not done anything about it in the 4 years it has been known, so I've taken this into my own hands to inform you.
You can update your profile name to be something else (actually, profile name is completely optional, so you can leave it blank if you want).
Steps to update profile name:
There's a misconfiguration with Mozilla's Discourse forum that when you sign up with your Firefox account, it will by default use your personal email address as your profile's public name.
This is not a new issue, and has been known since 2020. The Mozilla Discourse forum is not actively maintained by Mozilla, so this has yet to be fixed.
You are one of 4,630 other users impacted by this privacy issue. It impacts 19% of all forum users, and 28% of new users.
There's a Discourse discussion about this problem here: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/email-is-displayed-by-default-for-the-new-account/92266
If you have connections to Mozilla, please help escalate this issue to the right people. This is a serious and long-standing privacy issue at an organization that should value "Privacy by default".
Sincerely,@chrisA fellow Mozillian
I am not Mozilla: This is not an official Mozilla email, I do not represent or work for Mozilla. This is an email from a fellow community member spreading awareness of this unaddressed privacy issue.
I should not be a few keystrokes away from accidentally deleting all of today's entries with no confirmation if I'm sure, and no way to recover them, even if I close the browser in the same second. I don't even know which ones I hit.
For instance, I watch a video on Shout Factory and then pause, close the tab and when I go back to the link it goes back to where I left off.
https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/124.0/releasenotes/
How in web-extenion to detect whether a website supports dark mode and whether it is in dark mode?
Including not only does it automatically switch to dark mode (with color-scheme)), but also is it in dark mode by default, without using color-scheme, without having a light mode?
I want to expand (Firelux type) with such an automatic, effective detector.
I thought that maybe someone had made an effort to detect dark backgrounds, but also light subtitles, detecting everything possible...
Then it occurred to me that there should be a database of sites that have a dark mode and a way to bypass it...
But I'm doing it myself in Firelux, clicking laboriously.
How in web-extenion to detect whether a website supports dark mode and whether it is in dark mode?
Including not only does it automatically switch to dark mode (with color-scheme)), but also is it in dark mode by default, without using color-scheme, without having a light mode?
I want to expand (Firelux type) with such an automatic, effective detector.
I thought that maybe someone had made an effort to detect dark backgrounds, but also light subtitles, detecting everything possible...
Then it occurred to me that there should be a database of sites that have a dark mode and a way to bypass it...
But I'm doing it myself in Firelux, clicking laboriously.
The only addons I've been finding are ones that block based on specific urls, domains, or a few glob patterns. I want to specify any regex.
https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/02/06/a-preview-of-tab-previews-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-153/
Highlights Tab Previews! Congratulations to DJ for getting these landed. Currently disabled by default, but you can test them by setting `browser.tabs.cardPreview.enabled` to true ...