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Furious. I encourage users on Linux distros to file distro bugs about this. I just handled the Gentoo bug report[1]. We can't trust Mozilla upstream at this point to resolve these issues.

The issue wasn't so much that they added this functionality to grub some extra money, the issue was the opt-in happened on our targets without any notification or informed consent.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/817014

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Thanks for filing the report! I don't know that we can expect distributions to have the manpower to manage these issues, but neither can we expect users in the middle of the "Juse Use Chrome -> GHacks User Config" to be served by any other mechanism right now. I'd like to see Mozilla respond to the expressions in this thread, but that's frankly unlikely, so at the very least; it warms my heart to that this despise exists, has representation, calls to action, and demands which may someday be fulfilled, be it by leadership at Mozilla or elsewhere.

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