pgl 8 years 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)
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)