I wanted to, but my dumbass global IT department directly blocks uBlock Origin, Origin Lite, and AdBlock by extension IDs. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, the works.
replyI cannot even begin to fathom that stupid fucking decision from someone above me.
My company's security dept briefly (briefly!) put GCC on the banned software list. Yes, that GCC. Buncha big brainlords in that dept.
replyHow did that work out for them?
replyProbably took them some time to clean up all of the the Work Stoppage tickets that every dev in the company filed, lol.
replyI've been doing consultancy for OSS development and one in-between company asked me to sign a contract that had a random clause in it somewhere that banned the use of OSS for work.
replyWhen I pointed this out, they said "just ignore that part".
Nope LMAO!
You can change a contract before you sign it
replyLet the other side know, ensure you make the change clear and initial the change. 8f they sign the contract too, your change sticks
In my country, anyhow
It took a while to point out all the other stupidity in the contract (this wasn't the only part, just the most blatantly silly) and I ended up taking another one.
reply...if you are told in writing (say over email) to ignore a part of the contract, can you do that? Does that part no longer apply?
replyYou can strike a clause and then both parties countersign next to the strike mark on all copies and it will hold up in court.
replyEven so I would advise you to have the lawyers re-draft the entire thing.
Can people working at places that don’t let them install Firefox without an enterprise contract just go and install extensions?
replyFirefox already had a very mature policy management engine, it just didn't have a nice gui and would require like ansible or something to use.
replyIt allows forcing specific extensions on, and allowing user installs is a flag.
I use the policy engine on nixos to install some plugins and disable some of firefox's dumber features.
You'd think from a security perspective IT would even preinstall ublock origin.
reply>just install the fucking extension
reply...and this is/was the true Firefox way. You don't need to get some other browsers on the same engine made by shady companies. You have powerful plugins.