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Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

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757 points shak77 | 1 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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_red ◴[15 Dec 17 14:46 UTC] No.15932141[source]▶
Yeah, its so intuitive for the average person to type: about:config in address bar and scroll through hundreds of oddly named parameters to turn off spyware.

Comments like yours are illustrative of a certain mindset. When you encounter the complexity of domains you are not intimately familiar with (court system, law, finance, etc), and those complexities are designed specifically to make it hard for you to protect yourself, I'm sure you are just as understanding as you are now.

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bwat49 ◴[15 Dec 17 15:08 UTC] No.15932306[source]▶
You're being hyperbolic, you don't need to go into about:config.

It's right in the main browser settings, under the Privacy and Security section where one would expect settings like this to be

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1. JadeNB ◴[15 Dec 17 21:43 UTC] No.15935448[source]▶
> It's right in the main browser settings, under the Privacy and Security section where one would expect settings like this to be

If you asked me "where would you go to change settings to prevent the browser from violating your privacy and infringing on your security?", then, yes, I would go to "Privacy and Security". If, however, you asked me "what would you expect to find under 'Privacy and Security'?", my answer would be that that's where I would go to protect myself from malicious websites, not from malicious browsers.

(I know that 'malicious' is quite, and almost certainly too, strong here, but the point is that I think, and am explicitly encouraged to think, of Mozilla as being on my side against the sites I visit, and I don't think it's natural to expect that I will start thinking of how I need to protect myself from Mozilla to use their products in the way that I, rather than they, intend.)