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shak77 ◴[] No.15931738[source]
This is what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/mriUw

It scared the hell out of me! Are these guys losing their minds?

It was reported as a bug and the response thus far is indeed underwhelming for such a severe issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424977

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bwat49 ◴[] No.15931902[source]
It wasn't supposed to be visible on the addons page
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1. zzzeek ◴[] No.15932098[source]
that would be worse
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2. Sylos ◴[] No.15938424[source]
How exactly? Whether they push out code to you by just changing the binary or by installing an extension makes no difference. In fact, pushing it out as an extension, means they actually have less control over your browser, because are bound to the restrictions that extensions have.

Every browser vendor has this control over you when you use their browser. Some have even more, because they don't even need to tell you about it when they're closed-source.