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Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

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757 points shak77 | 6 comments | 15 Dec 17 13:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.016s | source | bottom
1. confounded ◴[15 Dec 17 16:35 UTC] No.15932984[source]▶
While I agree that releasing this as an undocumented extension was a poor PR move, in practical terms, I don’t see how this is any more insidious than the ‘no internet’ dinosaur jumping game built in to chrome.

Both are first-party. The difference seems to be that the dinosaur game keeps you entertained, where as this hopes to promote awareness of privacy/security.

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2. mynewtb ◴[15 Dec 17 16:41 UTC] No.15933031[source]▶
The dinosaur was not placed there by a movie studio to promote a random.movie.
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3. confounded ◴[15 Dec 17 18:15 UTC] No.15933798[source]▶
Neither was the Looking Glass extension.
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4. trendia ◴[15 Dec 17 20:49 UTC] No.15934965{3}[source]▶
It is related to Mr Robot
5. SpliffnCola ◴[16 Dec 17 02:22 UTC] No.15937042[source]▶
>"I don’t see how this is any more insidious than the ‘no internet’ dinosaur jumping game built in to chrome."

You don't see the difference between a built-in game (included in the installation of Chrome) vs. Mozilla pushing an add-on to a Firefox installation using a channel meant for helping to improve the browser?

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6. Sylos ◴[16 Dec 17 08:38 UTC] No.15938519[source]▶
Mozilla could have just as well pushed this as part of the binary via auto-update.