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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: 0.001s | source
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shak77 ◴[15 Dec 17 13:47 UTC] 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 ◴[15 Dec 17 14:15 UTC] No.15931902[source]▶
It wasn't supposed to be visible on the addons page
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mark-r ◴[15 Dec 17 14:21 UTC] No.15931947[source]▶
I don't think that makes it better. Knowing that there's a way to get an addon installed invisibly is going to be more justification for paranoia.
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bwat49 ◴[15 Dec 17 14:24 UTC] No.15931973[source]▶
You can disable these studies under Options | Privacy and Security
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_red ◴[15 Dec 17 14:29 UTC] No.15932013[source]▶
I hate the fact that Firefox increasingly makes me jump through all sorts of hoops to find all the hidden options to turn off their various spyware attempts. Its the Win10 of browsers...
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teddyfrozevelt ◴[15 Dec 17 14:36 UTC] No.15932079[source]▶
Going through your browser settings really is quite the hoop.
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1. mynewtb ◴[15 Dec 17 16:43 UTC] No.15933044[source]▶
How are you supposed to do turn the defaults to a reasonable level of privacy without launching Firefox once though?
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2. takeda ◴[15 Dec 17 19:54 UTC] No.15934513[source]▶
I remember it was asking if I want participate in studies when I installed FF for the first time.