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If you're talking about the Mr. Robot controversy, that wasn't spyware.
by AsyncAwait 9y ago
If you're talking about the Mr. Robot controversy, that wasn't spyware.
- Sylos 9y agoNot even adware or an ad in the state it was rolled out either, as it did nothing, except checking for an about:config-flag. If you manually enabled this flag, then it would have flipped around a few words.
- msla 9y agoWe don't fully know that. We know it was forced onto browsers in a manner which reeks of spyware.
- AsyncAwait 9y agoWe do know it, the extension is open-source [1]. The addon does nothing unless enabled via about:config and even then, it does not spy on you. 1 - https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr
- j_s 9y agoIn case you're not aware (and for anyone curious enough to look), the extension was changed dramatically within days of when the story hit the fan. It's really hard for someone as inexperienced as me to tell what was actually run! https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/7d4e422bf573f675beabce89876efc0efed0b021 https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/7d4e422bf573f675b... I believe it did technically run enough code to decide whether or not it was enabled, and I'm not sure whether or not its installation was avoidable (I believe enabling SHIELD studies is opt-in [perhaps part of opting in to analytics?]).