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Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

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757 points shak77 | 2 comments | 15 Dec 17 13:47 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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AdmiralAsshat ◴[15 Dec 17 14:27 UTC] No.15932004[source]▶
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass

The Mr. Robot series centers around the theme of online privacy and security. One of the 10 guiding principles of Mozilla's mission is that individuals' security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. The more people know about what information they are sharing online, the more they can protect their privacy.

...which you've done by installing a fishy-looking addon without our permission and making us less likely to trust you?

Well-done, Mozilla.

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theossuary ◴[15 Dec 17 14:41 UTC] No.15932105[source]▶
If you clicked on the link about shield studies you'd see it says they're opt in, did you not getting prompted about it?
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yborg ◴[15 Dec 17 14:46 UTC] No.15932143[source]▶
Apparently it's getting loaded anyway for some people that say they had "Studies" disabled and/or "Studies" itself became re-enabled.

The whole idea of slipping paid advertorial content into what are billed as "research" kind of gives the lie to this whole thing and is why I never turn these on in any product. Which is also why it's now "opt-out" by default, and why it will eventually not be an option at all. It's all for our own good, you see.

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jchw ◴[15 Dec 17 14:54 UTC] No.15932210[source]▶
Firefox Studies aren't new, and aren't opt-out by default. They're opt-in per study, in fact. The code to run them comes with Firefox, that's it. All this HN link is is someone asking what the add-on is, not proclaiming it did anything.
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1. thyrsus ◴[15 Dec 17 15:36 UTC] No.15932495[source]▶
In my Firefox 52.5.1 under a current CentOS 7, there is no about:studies. Either "studies" has been newly removed (Firefox updated yesterday, I think?) or about:studies is new or Firefox Studies has been included by default after the 52 series. Perhaps its just me, but I still think of post-52 Firefox as "new".

It's nonetheless not obvious to me why you were downvoted; I don't know if someone else was annoyed at your definition of "new" or whether there were other dubious claims in your comment. Perhaps privacy advocates are just too exhausted and cranky to explain themselves again.

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2. libertyEQ ◴[15 Dec 17 16:45 UTC] No.15933072[source]▶
Just as another data point, I'm on 56.0, and while the option is there, it is default not enabled. So, it looks like something changed in the move to Quantum.