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Wyy is Firefox accessing my camera in the middle of the night when I am asleep?

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Icarus
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For at least the third time in the last month, I have found a message in my Galaxy S7 phone's Permission History that Firefox has accessed my camera at an hour when it is on my nightstand and I am asleep. What the heck is going on?

For at least the third time in the last month, I have found a message in my Galaxy S7 phone's Permission History that Firefox has accessed my camera at an hour when it is on my nightstand and I am asleep. What the heck is going on?

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TyDraniu
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The only hypothesis we can think of is that some advertising or malicious script has requested access to the camera.