Mozilla has added support for Google’s Play Integrity API, known for blocking custom ROMs and rooted device from accessing banking apps, to Firefox for Android. According to a resolved issue in Mozilla’s public tracker, a new lib-integrity-googleplay library has been added to Firefox’s Android codebase. It requests a Play Integrity token, which is then passed to Mozilla’s MLPA (Machine Learning Proxy) server. The token gates access to Firefox’s server-side AI tools, like Smart Window, for rate-limiting purposes. It means Mozilla can ensure that only unmodified, Play-installed copies of Firefox on Google-certified devices can use its compute resources. It will not mean Firefox […]You're reading Firefox for Android adds Google Integrity checks, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.