It’s an unintended side effect that the majority of custom ROM users will appreciate.
Firefox being the first and only browser on Android enforcing Google play integrity verification wasn’t on my bingo card
Mozilla: insists AI is integral to Firefox now
Mozilla: locks AI behind Google Play verificationTruly the last great competitor to Google…
those 2 things could be true at once. People who use degoogled android are likely much more knowledgeable on tech and not need features normal people would need
they arent, but they theoretically could be
old news + use fennec fdroid
News to me. Where did you hear about it first?
This very website (well, technically another instance), someone complained how Firefox has Play Integrity
Is it anywhere close to Ironfox?
What’s fennec?
That’s the codename for Firefox Android.
Mozilla did
org.mozilla.fennec. The F-Droid people then didorg.mozilla.fennec_fdroid. For trademark reasons, they can’t use the name “Firefox” in the UIs.It also has additional features mainly related to privacy. I’m using it because you can install custom web extensions
…that’s… just firefox
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Yes.
Official addon store
If not from store: … > Settings > About > Logo 5 times; Back one screen; “Install add-on from file”EDIT: removed reply was “No”
It’s a build of Firefox by the F-Droid team. It is essentially identical to normal Firefox, except that you can install it via F-Droid, which is really nice!
IronFox is a more privacy-minded option if you want that, I believe it’s a continuation of the “Mull” browser.
Um, awesome?
I don’t know. This just makes sense. AI can be a major contributor to cost so making sure you generate revenue from the user just seems like the smart move.
If someone really wants to use their servers to do ai shit, they could spoof being a Linux or Windows client instead of the android one. There’s no difference at all.
I’m assuming Linux, windows and MacOS builds verify the signature to make sure the executable isn’t tampered. The same can be done on Android without needing to use draconian verification apis
An ankle high barrier is enough to reduce traffic to a point where it is no longer an issue.
There are loads of phones and non technical users.
there are literally zero persons in the world that:
- somehow, they really need to use the mozilla ai services api for reasons (??? classify a website for tab grouping?), but don’t want to pay
- they are skilled enough to recompile/patch/crack the android executable and change it to do their purpose
- somehow, they don’t have the skills to do the same in the linux/windows/macos executable
- are willing to waste days in reverse engineering efforts and perpetually play a cat&mouse game to save $1/month in inference costs
@Wispy2891 @Gladaed in the end is client side verification, it can be spoof anyway
You protect your api server side, not client side.
