Firefox Will Warn Users When Visiting Sites That Suffered a Data Breach

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Mozilla engineers have come up with a pretty cool add-on for Firefox. It's a notification system that tells a Firefox user whether or not the site they are visiting has had a data breach. This is a nice feature and it will take some of the guess work out of knowing who is somewhat secure or not. Companies might be mad about this, but they only have themselves to blame.

The add-on is in early stages of development, and the warnings are rough on the edges. Currently, they trigger when the user visits a site included in Have I Been Pwned's list of public data breaches.
 
Interesting concept but IMO it's going to get watered down over time. Pretty much every site has been breached at some point or another and tbh unless there is some context of time and extent of the breach then it's not really going to be that interesting and will just end up desensitizing people to breaches further.
 
This may eventually become - "What sites CAN we visit without warnings"???
 
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