Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.
They literally have control of and log every app that’s installed and will bug you until you uninstall it.
Unless they’re doing app signing, some of the methods to “log every app” literally look for an executable name. Renaming “firefox.exe” to “explorer.exe” (an obviously allowed executable name) and then executing it will still run Firefox.
Yeah, I don’t know how they’re doing it. They’re using some “zero trust” system. It’s beyond me.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Unless they’re doing app signing, some of the methods to “log every app” literally look for an executable name. Renaming “firefox.exe” to “explorer.exe” (an obviously allowed executable name) and then executing it will still run Firefox.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I don’t know how they’re doing it. They’re using some “zero trust” system. It’s beyond me.