Friday, 18. June 2010
Topic: WEB - on June 18, 2010 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Firefoxers howl as privacy add-on auto updates with 'bloatware' - Overstuffed TACO
Firefox users are howling that a widely-used browser add-on designed to protect them from unwanted cookie tracking has been automatically updated with what they see as overly intrusive "bloatware".
On June 14, after it was acquired by a software outfit known as Abine, a new version of the TACO behavioral-ad–blocking add-on was pushed out via Mozilla's auto-update process — which means it has received Mozilla's approval — and an army of users are complaining of a kind of privacy add-on bait-and-switch.
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