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Firefox has an interesting backdoor...

• SquareWheel 7y ago
  They also have a frontdoor: built-in automatic updates.
  • mlthoughts2018 7y ago
    This type of reply is ludicrous. An obscure feature (Normandy modifying default settings as part of studies) that requires you to actively opt out (and even then it’s still not clear if you _also_ have to go to about:config to _really_ disable it) and which can make such large scale errors as evicting all extensions is in absolutely no way comparable to the case of a user agreeing to auto-updates and fairly easily being able to disable them. It is astoundingly disingenuous to act like these things are comparable.
    • SquareWheel 7y ago
      I think you're overstating it. >It is astoundingly disingenuous to act like these things are comparable. Why aren't they comparable? In both cases, it's Mozilla pushing code to the end user. There's a different process behind both but calling one a frontdoor and one a backdoor seems apt to me. >and which can make such large scale errors as evicting all extensions Normandy was not used to disable all extensions. It was caused by a certificate expiration error completely independently. Normandy is being used instead to work around the error until a more permanent fix can be issued.
      • mlthoughts2018 7y ago
        > “Why aren't they comparable?” Because regular auto-updates are easy to understand and turn on/off. Normandy is clearly extremely hard for many users to understand, enabled by default, and hard to disable.