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> This is one more anti-privacy move from Mozilla in a series of such moves. It definitely sucks, but I don't see how it was anti-privacy at all. The extension

• Vinnl 9y ago
  It didn't even do that unless you explicitly turned on a flag in about:config.
• xenophonf 9y ago
  > it just modified web pages That's Mozilla taking another step down a very slippery slope. "It didn't hurt anyone" doesn't excuse ethical or moral wrongs. Given Mozilla's stated commitments to privacy and integrity, their choice here violated them.
• sangnoir 9y ago
  > It definitely sucks, but I don't see how it was anti-privacy at all. It definitely increased the attack surface area[1] with no upside for 99.9%[2] of Firefox users. 1. It's a juicy target: an addon that can modify the content of any page a user visits? It doesn't take much of an imagination to think of how this could be subverted. 2. My conservertive guess of the fraction of Fx users not interested in Mr Robot easter eggs; I probably ought to add a couple more "9"s