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757 points shak77 | 3 comments | 15 Dec 17 13:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.637s | source

1. Karunamon ◴[15 Dec 17 14:24 UTC] No.15931971[source]▶

Better yet, it appears that these "studies" (read: Mozilla pushing addons to your browser without notification or permission) are default opt-out.

Will they stop doing it? Of course not. I can't recall any time that this company has changed course in response to outcry.

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2. mjw1007 ◴[15 Dec 17 14:33 UTC] No.15932058[source]▶

I can: when they renamed firebird to firefox.

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3. throwanem ◴[15 Dec 17 15:24 UTC] No.15932416[source]▶

Was that outcry? I thought it was that or get sued. Been a while, though, so maybe I misrecollect.

Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser