[–] pgl 8y ago ↗ The Reddit thread linked in the GitHub issue is interesting:- https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_loo...There are several scary things about this:- Unknown Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users without their permission- Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users without their knowledge- Mozilla developers themselves don't realise the consequences of doing this- Experiments are not explicitly enabled by users- Opening the addons window reverts configuration changes which disable experiments- The only way to properly disable this requires fairly arcane knowledge Firefox preferences (lockpref(), which I'd never heard of until today)
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There are several scary things about this:
- Unknown Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users without their permission
- Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users without their knowledge
- Mozilla developers themselves don't realise the consequences of doing this
- Experiments are not explicitly enabled by users
- Opening the addons window reverts configuration changes which disable experiments
- The only way to properly disable this requires fairly arcane knowledge Firefox preferences (lockpref(), which I'd never heard of until today)