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I love my privacy too but you’ve got to keep the magnitude of things in mind. Those extensions are making it harder to correlate your interactions with different companies, this fail-closed behavior is protecting you against criminals gaining access to all your online accounts.

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Bullshit. Those extensions protect against both. Javascript being an important criminal vector. This fail-closed behaviour is disabling certified code because of an arbitrary date. At time of install the code was verified.

The code didn't change since. Mozilla is stupid for doing this.

"Those extensions are making it harder to correlate your interactions with different companies"

No, this is not a reason.

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