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Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34873574

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

OpenSuSE is German, I'm having to wonder if I need to prepare switching distros in case they have to remove Firefox from their repos. I'll need to research the flatpak to see if it works with webcams for video conferencing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    It should.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I know that my preferred browser (librewolf) does not and doesn't have a native build for OpenSuSE and often has problems with video conferencing in the flatpak. Its the only reason I've kept vanilla firefox installed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Interesting. I have flatpack Chrome and camera works (hence my it should). OTOH I have dnf Firefox and camera doesn't work because 'You did not allow the browser to use the web camera. Reload the page and try again.' I guess (your) Firefox issue might not be related to flatpak. (Fedora 42/KDE)

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I think it's more related to the inherent security settings in librewolf and the sandboxing flatpak does not meshing well, which is fine as that's a great upside for it. It's not a big deal to have a dedicated browser, but I'd rather be able to block most if not all the crap when I do need to use the webcam which is why I avoid Chromium browsers when possible.

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