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0 pointsLyndsySimon8y ago0 comments

> No changes will be made to Firefox unless you have opted in to this Alternate Reality Game.

That can't possibly be true. I had it installed, and I'm on my work machine using Firefox Developer Edition. I didn't opt in to any ARG.

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icebraining8y ago

I think what they mean is that the addon doesn't do anything unless you opt-in. Still, why install it at all?

dpwm8y ago

The installation of the add-on is unquestionably a change to Firefox. Whether the add-on does anything is largely immaterial.

bigbugbag8y ago

Really poor choice of words here from mozilla. "The changes that already happened will not make changes to your firefox unless you enable them to", in other words the changes already happened and are just waiting to be activated.

sp3328y ago

It's installed, but apparently doesn't do anything if you don't have "studies" enabled.

LyndsySimonOP8y ago

Something was installed on my system without my permission, from a vendor that I chose specifically because they promise not to do things like that.

To put it another way - if I discovered a rootkit sitting in the ~/Downloads directory on my Mac, that would be a problem. If the entity that surreptitiously placed it there said that I shouldn't worry about it because it hadn't been run, I wouldn't be inclined to trust them.

pbhjpbhj8y ago

That lack of permissions make this illegal IMO. CFAA in USA and CMA in UK both make unauthorised access and unauthorised modification of a computer a crime.

I've used FF since before it was FF, and I've installeded it on umpteen other people's computers; strongly advocating for it. Since they sacked that guy for not conforming to a specific liberal ideology they seem to have gone batshit crazy ... what happened? Was he their main privacy advocate or something?

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_Codemonkeyism8y ago

Installing extensions is not "No changes will be made to Firefox".

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