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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by ddevault on Saturday December 16, 2017 @10:35PM (#15943921)
Thank you for your comment. I'm sorry I hadn't seen this earlier; I stopped reading the HN thread a while ago. I have added this to my article:

>It has been clarified that an about:config flag must be set for this addon’s behavior to be visible. This improves the situation considerably, but I do not think it exenorates Mozilla and I stand firm behind most of my points. The study has also been rolled back by Mozilla, and Mozilla has issued statements [0] to the media [1] justifying the study (no apology has been issued).

[0] https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-slipped-a-mr-robot-promo-plugin-...

[1] https://gizmodo.com/after-blowback-firefox-will-move-mr-robo...

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by endemic on Sunday December 17, 2017 @03:01PM (#15947345)
> no apology has been issued

This is my problem, right here. To err is human, but I would expect a level of contriteness, rather than doubling down on the "nothing to see here" attitude.

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by bluefox on Sunday December 17, 2017 @11:33AM (#15946366)
It doesn't improve the situation at all, which is that Mozilla has the capability to silently install addons in a default setting.
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