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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by majewsky on Friday December 15, 2017 @09:41AM (#15932111)
> No changes will be made to Firefox unless you have opted in to this Alternate Reality Game.

How does it not occur to them that this is a clear lie?

Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by pbhjpbhj on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:27AM (#15932431)
Because the previous ads for Pocket and Telefonica were effective and they don't care?
Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by gvx on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:31AM (#15932946)
I hardly think it's a lie. My browser contains no trace of anything related to Looking Glass, even though I'm opted into Shield Studies. It seems to affect some people but not others. Definitely something that should be fixed in the core mechanism of how these things are downloaded by your browser if there are cases where it can happen without user intervention, but it doesn't seem to be intentional to download extensions without the user's consent.
Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by Mizza on Friday December 15, 2017 @12:32PM (#15933430)
It's absolutely a lie.

Mozilla has injected malicious-looking advertisement executable software into my process without my permission and then lied about it. I have no idea what this software is, what it does, or whether it is proprietary or free. I opted into nothing.

This is a huge, huge mistake by Mozilla.