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Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by akerro on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:15PM (#15648179)
>And sadly, Firefox is the only browser that does this.

Not any more, I recently discovered that my firefox at work got infected with Firefox Pioneer. I didn't install that, it just appeared on list of my addons, no warning or anything. I heard on Reddit about similar cases from a few months ago, people got Safe Browsing installed without their knowledge. Both are signed addons from Mozilla.

https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/

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Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by unethical_ban on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:21PM (#15648231)
>at work

Is youre IT group policy doing this?

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Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by akerro on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:19AM (#15650419)
Small company, we don't have such policies, root account on my PC at work belongs to me. It's Ubuntu.

your

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Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by ryuuchin on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:07PM (#15649223)
Safe browsing is now built in to Firefox (and Chrome) so I'm not sure what you're seeing there. It hasn't shipped as an addon for quite some time.
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Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) by Vinnl on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:50AM (#15650497)
> Participation is voluntary, and you can remove yourself by disabling the add-on after you install it.

So it sounds like a bug or another case of non-malice. Tried reporting it at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/?

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