This isn't a meaningful loss of user control, and I already said elsewhere that Mozilla should have communicated more about this new feature, but ultimately it's the right kind of feature. In order for that feature to actually protect users, you need a mechanism to turn it on and off remotely so that if a new threat is identified (or there is a serious regression in Firefox that makes specific extensions higher risk), that users don't need to act to do the right thing. The ability to disable add-ons by domain is a great feature for user control, but it's functionally useless on it's own as a mechanism to protect users. That said, the parent post positioned this as an abomination of a feature, but acknowledged it makes sense as a user feature. It's absolutely important to challenge Mozilla and other open source projects, especially in this era of enshittification Mozilla and Firefox operate in a position of trust on behalf of their users. Nah, it was meant as preachy, but not necessarily condescending.
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