Really disappointed that Firefox no longer supports Tab for a Cause! I entirely agree with the motivation for it, i.e. protecting users’ privacy, however I strongly feel that Tab for a Cause is an organisation that should be permitted - it’s such a great cause, after all. It’s such a shame that this has happened and I will have to consider switching to a different browser if this is not changed 
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I object to rationalizing this in the name of privacy, for 2 reasons:
- Why is the user not given an obvious choice in this instance on what the plug-in can and cannot do? That’s the whole point of permissions, isn’t it?
- If privacy was that important to Mozilla, why is it not possible to avoid displaying email addresses on BMO? And more to the point, why was I not at least warned about this questionable behavior when I signed up?
is there a way I can sideload the plugin, or do I have to switch to another browser? the main reason I have been using Firefox this long is because it’s FOSS, and for that reason I really don’t appreciate my freedom being restricted like this, even if I could still technically fork or patch it based on the source.
Seconding this. The tab for a cause team has a good defense for their extension here.
I’m switching from chrome to firefox because of the whole manifest v3 debacle and was sad to see I couldn’t use this extension.
This is an old thread, but I wanted to bring it up again anyway. I am moving back to Firefox from Google Chrome, and I have always used Tab For a Cause, so it’s disappointing to see that Firefox is not allowing it now. The article that @adamstrickland97 linked has a great explanation on why it should be allowed.
Tab for a Cause has always been reliable, and it has been around for so long. There’s no need to suddenly take it away.
oh that is why my tab for a cause has not been showing any adds. i was wondering what’s going on there.
Because the extension itself still works (i had it installed since more than 2 years ago, when it was still available and it is still in my firefox profile folder).
even the “new image loading” works, just the adds don’t