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2017: Open source web browser company silently to users, not even any discussion on bugzilla or anywhere else - installs a plugin made by an advertising company
by KennyBlanken 3y ago
2017: Open source web browser company silently to users, not even any discussion on bugzilla or anywhere else - installs a plugin made by an advertising company for a media conglomerate's TV show about hackers into everyone's Firefox installations.
The project manager responsible who used to work in the advertising industry tries to damage-control things and locks/hides the ticket. Another mozilla staffer unlocks/unhides it and states it was improperly hidden/locked.
The ticket is then made uber-double-super-secret so that not even mozilla staff can view it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423003 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423003
Other tickets about it are locked because of "off topic comments."
Coverage: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robot-arg-plugin-firefox-looking-glass https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo...
Then there was the Cliqz incident:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_mozilla_as_i_understand_it_and_metadrama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_m...
They actively worked to hide the plugin's true nature: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392855#c5 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392855#c5
Cliqz was a division of Burda Media.