Mozilla has added support for Google's Play Integrity API, known for blocking users of custom ROMs from accessing banking apps, to Firefox for Android.
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?
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.
for me ironfox runs way slower than firefox and i dont know why. im using the same exact extensions on both. id prefer using ironfox but its borderline unusable (im on a pixel 9a running graphene)
That’s… alright, that seems not unreasonable. Am I misunderstanding this?
So those of us without Google’s spyware can’t use Mozilla’s AI crap? Lovely.
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’m someone who did not install mine via the play store, which sounds like means I don’t have access.
Luckily I don’t need it, but they just bifurcated their user base
I use the Fennec fork, from F-Droid.
TIL, I’ll check it out
There is also ironfox https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox if you scan the qr code it will add the repository to your f-droid app.
for me ironfox runs way slower than firefox and i dont know why. im using the same exact extensions on both. id prefer using ironfox but its borderline unusable (im on a pixel 9a running graphene)
I already disable all of the AI shitware on firefox, so this is a non-issue for me.