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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: 0.425s | source
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positivecomment ◴[15 Dec 17 14:22 UTC] No.15931950[source]▶
Out of literally all the software vendors I know, including the one I'm working for, Mozilla is the one I'd have least expected to allow such a thing. I'm very surprised (Negatively, needless to say)
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Simon_says ◴[15 Dec 17 14:41 UTC] No.15932104[source]▶
I would have said the same thing until they integrated the W3C Encrypted Media Extensions. It's clear they lost their way some time ago.
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1. franga2000 ◴[15 Dec 17 23:23 UTC] No.15936152[source]▶
I don't like EME either, but not implementing it would've killed any chance of regaining users: "Oh look, Firefox Quantum looks awesome, I should try it. ... Never mind, it doesn't play Netflix". Implemeting it, but disabling it by default was a good choice. People will have to consciously click "I accept DRM" to use it, which might get them to read more about what it is and ultimately raise awareness about how terrible it is.
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2. Simon_says ◴[16 Dec 17 00:12 UTC] No.15936442[source]▶
Yea, but they lost me today. EME annoyed me, and I took note of it, but I didn't leave over it. But now I feel like Looking Glass is the straw that broke the camel's back.

The world doesn't need another browser that sacrifices principles for market share. Chrome, IE, and Safari are perfectly good browsers for that. What I wanted was a browser (and software in general) that promotes security, privacy, open standards, and open source. You can accuse me of misinterpreting the situation, but that's what I thought Firefox was 10 years ago. It's not what Firefox is today. It's turned into just another organization that's optimizing for the continuation of the organization over it's own founding principles.