Mozilla forcefully replacing plugins with adware ..

do you have screenshots of that advertising statement? i havent seen it so far, howd you get that

It's in the link provided. I disabled firefox upgrades, Firefox upgraded anyway and disable my plugins, I am very pissed.

Privacy Policy for Mozilla-Add-Ons:

"When you use this Add-On with your Firefox web browser, we will place one or more data in a local storage of your browser. For example, we will store the path of your local destination folder there. Another example is, that we will store there the country of the a web store you are using (e.g. if you are using a certain store in the USA, or in another country).

From time to time, we will display an advertising in your Add-On (e.g. in the Firefox UI). This will link to our server. So when you click on our advertising, Link64 collects the following: * Search term and time and date of your search * IP Address, browser configuration and approximate location * Country of the web store you are using, and language

Then, we will re-direct you to our affiliate partner network. This might include companies like amazon, ebay, and others. With this re-direction we will forward the following information to our partner companies: * Search term and time and date of your search * IP Address, browser configuration and approximate location * Country of the web store you are using, and language

Furthermore, our servers will from time to time get information from your web browser: * Time and date of this request * IP Address, browser configuration and approximate location This data will be stored for a limited time on our server and then be deleted.

Unless described here, no data will be provided to any third party, and just used by us for internal statistics, which cannot be used to identify you.

The above advertising is necessary for us, in order to maintain our business model of free Add-Ons."

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