In order for that feature to actually protect users, you need a mechanism to turn it on and off remotely so that if a new threat is identified (or there is a serious regression in Firefox that makes specific extensions higher risk), that users don't need to act to do the right thing. The ability to disable add-ons by domain is a great feature for user control, but it's functionally useless on it's own as a mechanism to protect users. That said, the parent post positioned this as an abomination of a feature, but acknowledged it makes sense as a user feature. It's absolutely important to challenge Mozilla and other open source projects, especially in this era of enshittification Mozilla and Firefox operate in a position of trust on behalf of their users. Nah, it was meant as preachy, but not necessarily condescending.
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