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FF addons&extensions TheTwelveYearOld • 2 months ago • 62%

[PSA] Your email may be publicly shown as your name on discourse.mozilla.org

I'm actually pissed. I and many other users on the forum got an email from Chris Hayes on this: Hello, This is a friendly email to make you aware that your personal email address is currently visible to the whole internet via Mozilla's Discourse forum. It will show up in Google Search results. The affected email is the one that this email was sent to. Many users may not be aware that their email address is publicly visible and Mozilla has not done anything about it in the 4 years it has been known, so I've taken this into my own hands to inform you. ## What can you do? You can update your profile name to be something else (actually, profile name is completely optional, so you can leave it blank if you want). **Steps to update profile name:** 1. If you search for "**Mozilla Discourse forum**" it should be one of the first results. 2. Login. (Top-right) 3. Click on your **profile picture** at the top right. 4. Then, click on your **username,** at the top of the dropdown menu. 5. Click on the "**Preferences**" button. 6. Change the "**Name**" field, and click "**Save Changes**". ## How did this happen? There's a misconfiguration with Mozilla's Discourse forum that when you sign up with your Firefox account, it will ***by default*** **use your personal email address as your profile's public name**. This is not a new issue, and has been **known since 2020**. The Mozilla Discourse forum is not actively maintained by Mozilla, so this has yet to be fixed. You are one of **4,630** other users impacted by this privacy issue. It impacts **19%** of all forum users, and **28%** of new users. ## More information: There's a Discourse discussion about this problem here: [https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/email-is-displayed-by-default-for-the-new-account/92266](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/email-is-displayed-by-default-for-the-new-account/92266) If you have connections to Mozilla, please help escalate this issue to the right people. This is a serious and long-standing privacy issue at an organization that *should* value "Privacy by default". Sincerely,[@chris](https://people.mozilla.org/p/chris)A fellow Mozillian **I am not Mozilla:** This is **not** an official Mozilla email, I do not represent or work for Mozilla. This is an email from a fellow community member spreading awareness of this unaddressed privacy issue.

FF addons&extensions TheTwelveYearOld • 5 months ago • 17%

Any way to make Firefox remember what time I pause videos at after closing their tabs?

For instance, I watch a video on Shout Factory and then pause, close the tab and when I go back to the link it goes back to where I left off.

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FF addons&extensions acetanilide • 6 months ago • 83%

Is there an addon for mobile (android) that can filter facebook posts by keyword?

I see a few selections for desktop, but the only mobile options I have found so far only work with chrome. I have used a search engine and looked on the add-ons page as well as on GitHub. Basically the goal is to remove facebook posts that are about certain topics using keywords. Other features are cool too. Any suggestions?

FF addons&extensions shrugal • 6 months ago • 87%