Privacy Badger on Bluesky
Using an older version of Firefox?
ALL add-ons will stop working on Firefox versions older than 128 (or older than ESR 115.13+) on March 14, in just a few days from now.
To keep using your add-ons including Privacy Badger, you will need to update Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/root-certificate-expiration
Versions are meaningless. It’s just numbering.
128 came out in July of last year, which means that Firefox will deliberately block use of products after eight months.
That’s fucking garbage. Software development and release lifecycles have turned into a “release-ignore-discontinue” cycle of barely long enough for consumers to constantly upgrade to.
Is there a way to find out how many security specific fixes were introduced in those 8 months?
I would agree with you only if the version updates were purely cosmetic, but I tend to see security patches with nearly every release. And 8 months sounds like an eternity to not be patched up.
They aren’t deliberately blocking anything, but rather certificates are expiring.