C.<p>I had a crash that took down Firefox, so when I restarted it it was the newest version (an update I'd installed, but hadn't restarted after).</p><p>I just went looking through the settings pages, which is a habit I've unfortunately had to get into because <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> and <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> keep adding new anti-user fuckery in their continuing quest to drive users away from the only product they make that anyone gives two shits about.</p><p>And lo and behold, *this* is the new fuckery I found. Enabled by default. And it reinforces the need to go *check* for this bullshit every version update.</p><p>Firefox, if you had asked me how to cut my already diminishing trust in you to do the right thing by your users to near zero, I wouldn't have even dreamed this batshittery up. It's so much worse than I would have suggested. I have *all* the crap turned off - silently adding new crap and silently defaulting it to on is 1995-era Microsoft-screwing-the-users.</p><p>You feel you need to add this shit? Fine. But show me a dialog asking me whether I want it on or not when that version first starts. Don't turn it on behind my back and HOPE I DON'T NOTICE.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/fuckery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckery</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TwoShits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TwoShits</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/batshittery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>batshittery</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abuse</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DarkPattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPattern</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/user" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>user</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BehindYourBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BehindYourBack</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Enabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enabled</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/EnabledByDefault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnabledByDefault</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/permission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permission</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AskPermission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AskPermission</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/sponsored" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sponsored</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ads</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/version" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>version</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>update</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bullshit</span></a></p>