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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by _Codemonkeyism on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:34AM (#15932474)
Wow, FF is sniffing the content and changing words.

Could not think of anything worse a web browser could do.

Do they change political arguments on pages in the future to see how I react in a user study?

Signed Mr. Guinea Pig

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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by bad_user on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:12AM (#15932785)
That's ridiculous, since FF is literally fetching and rendering that content, being its raison d'être.

You can't "sniff" what is already yours to begin with.

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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by brador on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:55PM (#15935011)
Sniff implies sending. It's the scanned content transportation and destination that's the issue.
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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by bad_user on Sunday December 17, 2017 @01:43AM (#15944540)
There's no sending involved with this add-on.
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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by shak77 on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:37AM (#15932500)
>Do they change political arguments on pages in the future to see how I react in a user study?

It's possible: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/08/mozilla-information...

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