All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by inferiorhuman on Saturday May 04, 2019 @06:48AM (#19825659)

Well that's interesting. I see Normandy enabled, but if I go to the "Privacy and Security" section of the preferences page I see all the data collection and use stuff disabled. There's no obvious way to disable the Normandy back door.

Oh well, at least we don't have another season of Mr Robot spam to look forward to.

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by rectang on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:11AM (#19826202)

Presumably the logic is something like:

    if (studies.enabled) {
      if (normandy.enabled) {
        ...
      }
    }

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by AsyncAwait on Saturday May 04, 2019 @07:41AM (#19825846)

> There's no obvious way to disable the Normandy back door.

???

It's a publicly documented feature with a publicly documented way to disable it.

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by brynjolf on Saturday May 04, 2019 @07:46AM (#19825860)

With an obscure name and no correlation to all the other spying and backdoor ING Mozilla are doing. Is this really the best option tog etaprivacy focused browser? I think this is all very worrying.

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by awful_waffle on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:51AM (#19826424)

Can you elaborate on what 'other spying' Mozilla does? Do you mean their telemetry?

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by brynjolf on Saturday May 04, 2019 @12:50PM (#19827611)

Spying was the wrong word. But yes, the telemetry. The google analytics that are hidden on the extensions page, that only listen to the Do not track, but not the turn off telemetry checkbox. Sadly it just doesn't seem to stop.

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by fjsolwmv on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:55AM (#19826457)

It's named after a world famous beachhead of an invasion. The name isn't that obscure for a feature that invades the userbase with a takeover.

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by AsyncAwait on Saturday May 04, 2019 @12:13PM (#19827328)

I am not sure what 'spying' Mozilla is doing, but I agree this should be better named and better highlighted.

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