>In light of recent reports of Firefox Send being used to distribute malware we have decided to temporarily take the service offline to implement new features, including:
> An improved abuse reporting capability
> A requirement that users have a Firefox Account to share content
> We are also evaluating other features and capabilities to improve Firefox Send.
Personally I think this makes sense. The previous setup was too good to be true, and definitely was bound to attract malware and other illegal material.
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 16.9 ms ] threadPlease, just add this missing context to make it less clickbaity. It has nothing to do with the recent Mozilla events.
>In light of recent reports of Firefox Send being used to distribute malware we have decided to temporarily take the service offline to implement new features, including:
> An improved abuse reporting capability
> A requirement that users have a Firefox Account to share content
> We are also evaluating other features and capabilities to improve Firefox Send.
Personally I think this makes sense. The previous setup was too good to be true, and definitely was bound to attract malware and other illegal material.
[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-s...