Google needs to fuck off.
The token is used to access Firefox’s server-side AI tools, like Smart Window, for rate-limiting purposes, ensuring only unmodified, Play-installed copies of Firefox on Google-certified devices use Mozilla’s1 compute infra.
That’s… alright, that seems not unreasonable. Am I misunderstanding this?
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If only that one service had access to the API then I wouldn’t care much, but it sounds like any website can now check if my phone is rooted and deny me access.
I already disable all of the AI shitware on firefox, so this is a non-issue for me.
on one hand, fuck Mozilla’s enshitifiation.
on the other hand, this is a pro for custom ROM users. you get the AI automatically stripped out.
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