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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 i
by confounded 9y ago
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.
- mynewtb 9y agoThe dinosaur was not placed there by a movie studio to promote a random.movie.
- confounded 9y agoNeither was the Looking Glass extension.
- trendia 9y agoIt is related to Mr Robot
- SpliffnCola 9y ago>"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?
- Sylos 9y agoMozilla could have just as well pushed this as part of the binary via auto-update.