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New comment by TooFastIndeed in "Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser"

TooFastIndeed — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 21:09:35 +0000

Because this is not the scenario that is being denounced here. A brand new add-on with functionality unrelated to the product is being installed without consent or even notification - that's capital M Malware peddling.

New comment by TooFastIndeed in "Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser"

TooFastIndeed — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:58:19 +0000

Automatically updating an already enabled add-on is hardly the same thing as silently pushing a new one.

Security updates were and still are configurable to be installed after prompting, also when they are installed automatically I am notified that this has happened. There is also an implicit trust in the vendor that only security-related functionality should be changed in a security update.

New comment by TooFastIndeed in "Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser"

TooFastIndeed — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:54:31 +0000

I understand it all too well, but when Mozilla is posing as a public benefit company with the "good of the Internet" as its mission this kind of stuff is inexcusable and should be called out all the louder.