That's the very corporate bullshit I mentioned. They talk about vague “concern in the community”, while the problem is direct, one-on-one breach of trust betwee

That's the very corporate bullshit I mentioned. They talk about vague “concern in the community”, while the problem is direct, one-on-one breach of trust between Firefox and each of its users. People were fine with sending crash reports that can cause someone at Mozilla wonder if spending 10 hours at a single porn site page is a common use case, and the ability to install new code on users' systems could be a necessary evil in case of some network worm exploiting some zero-day, but that all was grounded in the firm belief that Mozilla did what it was supposed to do, i.e. making a good web browser, and was not abusing its tools. The people responsible don't even understand the multi-layeredness of the fuck-up (because they don't understand the core problem). a) There is a silently installed unwanted code. b) There is a little known backdoor in Firefox that installed the code. (And that makes manual confirmation of regular updates a security circus that simply cheats the user.) Sure, they can say it is only used to satisfy a specific set of developers' needs, but c) It has already been abused! d) To everyone's amusement, Mozilla happens to bother itself with that baloney (“…instead of working”, many will add). e) No one at Mozilla prevented that from happening (or was able to, or was aware of it). f) That all makes the crack between Mozilla's declarations and Mozilla's reality shine bright. Now if someone at Mozilla decides to come up with the times and sell user browsing history (“non-personalized”, as they say), will I be able to find solace in another couple of PR bullshit blog posts? If some engineers were Mr Robot fans and decided to implement the same functionality, it would have been forgotten in a couple of days. Easter egg, mildly amusing, go on. But a company that shows its absolute incompetence that way is not a pleasurable sight.