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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for... by donatj on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:25AM (#16211907)
Firefox + Mr. Robot for a very recent example. Someone at some level should have exclaimed angrily that pushing people an extension without their consent that fiddled with content was a “garbage idea for garbage people”.

Instead they lost face and now I and many other privacy concerned users can never trust Firefox ever again.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for... by ufo on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:12PM (#16215166)
The firefox situation had more to do with the extension bypassing typical review processes than with engineers seeing the problem but not voicing their opinion. Many Mozilla engineers learned about that debacle the same time that we did.
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