Absolutely. The whole ordeal reminds me awfully of Ajit Pai's tone as he kills net neutrality, sounding as if everything was fine until net neutrality came along.
Although different, this too brushes off this one instance as a mistake, and entirely disregards the rest of the article, not even trying to address or explain the rest of Mozilla's recent borderline malicious behavior.
A serious fork is long overdue, if only it didn't take a corporation as big as Mozilla to undo their bad deeds.
I'm just one DevRel engineer on a layover; I'm not the right person to answer those broader questions. Not trying to be dismissive, just trying to engage in the areas where I'm most able.
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope
by betterunix2 on Saturday December 16, 2017 @09:10PM
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Do you have an insight into whether or not Mozilla will issue an update that removes the ability to push add-ons in this fashion?
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope
by Dylan16807 on Sunday December 17, 2017 @02:43PM
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Bah. This was something that looked spooky but ran exactly zero payload by itself. It implies failed processes inside mozilla, but nothing malicious.
I still want a justification of the cliqz thing, sure, but I don't demand it in relation to this.
It's great that it was pulled, but what about removing the ability to silently install add-ons? Give up the power to make this mistake in the future if you want forgiveness.