<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="/tags/firefox/" rel="tag">#Firefox</a> and <a href="/tags/mozilla/" rel="tag">#Mozilla</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="/tags/fuckery/" rel="tag">#fuckery</a> <a href="/tags/twoshits/" rel="tag">#TwoShits</a> <a href="/tags/batshittery/" rel="tag">#batshittery</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#abuse</a> <a href="/tags/darkpattern/" rel="tag">#DarkPattern</a> <a href="/tags/user/" rel="tag">#user</a> <a href="/tags/behindyourback/" rel="tag">#BehindYourBack</a> <a href="/tags/enabled/" rel="tag">#Enabled</a> <a href="/tags/enabledbydefault/" rel="tag">#EnabledByDefault</a> <a href="/tags/permission/" rel="tag">#permission</a> <a href="/tags/askpermission/" rel="tag">#AskPermission</a> <a href="/tags/sponsored/" rel="tag">#sponsored</a> <a href="/tags/ads/" rel="tag">#ads</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/version/" rel="tag">#version</a> <a href="/tags/update/" rel="tag">#update</a> <a href="/tags/bullshit/" rel="tag">#bullshit</a></p>