Mozilla faces blowback after slipping Mr Robot plugin into Firefox - The Verge
▻https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robot-arg-plugin-firefox-looking-glass
There are several scary things about this:
– Unknown Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users without their permission
– Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users without their knowledge
– Mozilla developers themselves don’t realise the consequences of doing this
– Experiments are not explicitly enabled by users
– Opening the addons window reverts configuration changes which disable experiments
– The only way to properly disable this requires fairly arcane knowledge Firefox preferences (lockpref(), which I’d never heard of until today)
WTF ?!?
