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Didn’t Mozilla side load a Mr Robots extension ad and silently install Cliqz adware onto German users? IIRC the Cliqz extension sends all your browsing history
by dahdum 9y ago
Didn’t Mozilla side load a Mr Robots extension ad and silently install Cliqz adware onto German users? IIRC the Cliqz extension sends all your browsing history to them.
- kuschku 9y agoYes, they did, and it caused Mozilla to lose almost a quarter of their German marketshare in a few months. The CliqZ debacle was insanity, considering that Burda, the parent company of CliqZ, is mostly known for its ad and tracking networks, and its clickbait tabloids.
- Dylan16807 9y agoThe Mr. Robot extension wasn't an ad (it did nothing from being installed). With Cliqz they announced it would be bundled with the installer some of the time as a pilot program. I don't know how silent it was, and I can't find a good followup about what actually ended up happening in/after that pilot program.
- gfodor 9y agoThe Mr Robots ARG related marketing content that was deployed through SHIELD had a post-mortem released in January, as promised, following the apology issued in December shortly after it happened. https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass... (disclosure: I work for Mozilla)