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At this point, I think we should all slow down and wait until Mozilla does their internal investigation and makes some sort of statement. It's clear that a scre
by jimrandomh 9y ago
At this point, I think we should all slow down and wait until Mozilla does their internal investigation and makes some sort of statement. It's clear that a screwup occurred, but not clear precisely what the screwup was.
From the outside, it looks like something that was unfinished and supposed to be opt-in was accidentally rolled out to everyone, which suggests a problem with release management or code review process, combined with human error. But this is speculation. Whatever happened, scaring people with something that looks kinda like malware and having a PR shitstorm was clearly not the intent.
- hellcow 9y agoMozilla's CMO already defended their behavior in a statement to Gizmodo [1], claiming in effect that the malware they silently injected into people's browsers didn't harm people's privacy, and thus was OK. Mozilla's CMO believes that Mozilla did nothing fundamentally wrong. That shows a cultural disconnect between Mozilla's management and Firefox users. Privacy is one important feature, but trust is what was violated here. [1]: https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-slipped-a-mr-robot-promo-plugin-into-firefox-1821332254 https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-slipped-a-mr-robot-promo-plugin-...
- hayyyyydos 9y ago> claiming in effect that the malware they silently injected into people's browsers It's not malware - please stop calling it that.
- anonymousab 9y agoIt does some arguable unwanted things with text and is rather underperformant in doing so. a It is "off by default" except for some users reporting it as not (and except for nightly?), which is once again pegged as some vaporous bug that we will likely see no followup on. It is unfortunately like much modern software in that vein. Not quite malware, but very undesirable.
- 0xffff2 9y agoCan you give a reasonable definition of malware that doesn’t include this plugin?