Mr. Robot & Mozilla = shame! shame! shame!

[Elixer]

This is perhaps the dumbest thing Mozilla has ever done.
They have the ability to force-push whatever they want, and they dare say this was done to "protect privacy"?
Seriously?
They BREAK user privacy themselves, to prove that they could, so users will know better to protect privacy?

Such BS.

Whomever thought this was a good idea needs to resign.
There is no other way to fix this massive blunder that they did.

Mozilla Angers Firefox Users After Force-Installing Mr. Robot Promo Add-On

Mozilla took a bit of heat this week after the organization force-installed a Mr. Robot promotional add-on in some Firefox browsers.

The add-on, called Looking Glass, was intended to promote the season 3 finale of Mr. Robot that aired on Wednesday, December 13, but the whole media stunt failed miserably.

Instead, users were extremely ticked off that Mozilla had the audacity to push a promo add-on without permission in their browsers [1, 2, 3].

The ones that weren't pissed off were confused, as the add-on had a cryptic name and description, and it took a lot of googling to figure out what the new add-on was about.

Mozilla admits to media stunt
"Firefox and Mr Robot have collaborated on a shared experience to further your immersion into the Mr Robot universe, also known as an Alternate Reality Game (ARG)," Mozilla explained in a knowledge article.

"The Mr. Robot series centers around the theme of online privacy and security. One of the 10 guiding principles of Mozilla's mission is that individuals' security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. The more people know about what information they are sharing online, the more they can protect their privacy," Mozilla also added, trying to explain its decision.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...after-force-installing-mr-robot-promo-add-on/

 

[rh71]

Sucks for those 5.8% who still use it.

http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-states-of-america
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

 

[Skunk-Works]

Mozilla has been going down hill ever since their copy cat crap of Chrome with the new UI.

 

[interchange]

I dunno. Seems like people are pretty uptight.

 

[IronWing]

Do other browsers have NoScript and AdBlock equivalents? Otherwise, kind of stuck. The latest version of FF is also really slow loading despite Mozilla's insistence that it is their fastest browser ever.

 

[PottedMeat]

Do other browsers have NoScript and AdBlock equivalents? Otherwise, kind of stuck. The latest version of FF is also really slow loading despite Mozilla's insistence that it is their fastest browser ever.

had no idea about the studies thing, was enabled by default and had that promo crap 'completed'. i guess it got blocked lol.

the only thing that slows down firefox for me is ebay sometimes for a few seconds - but when it does it slows down all tabs.

 

[Anubis]

Do other browsers have NoScript and AdBlock equivalents? Otherwise, kind of stuck. The latest version of FF is also really slow loading despite Mozilla's insistence that it is their fastest browser ever.

chrome has both
so does pale moon
im pretty sure opera does as well

 

[purbeast0]

After doing webapp development the past 5+ years I'm really surprised that people use browsers other than Chrome.

 

[gorcorps]

People still use Firefox?

 

[lxskllr]

After doing webapp development the past 5+ years I'm really surprised that people use browsers other than Chrome.

I'd use elinks before using chrome. I'm not interested in feeding google's data machine.

 

[Captante]

I still find that Chrome has occasional issues with secure transactions, although to be fair these have become fewer and fewer as time goes by.

And despite updating FF on a regular basis I've yet to encounter anything related to "Mr Robot".

 

[DigDog]

Mozilla has been going down hill ever since their copy cat crap of Chrome with the new UI.

have you .. seen, the new FF UI ?? it's so ugly i genuinely cannot any longer use it, and i only use it for 1 website.

 

[Blackjack200]

After doing webapp development the past 5+ years I'm really surprised that people use browsers other than Chrome.

It's funny that you say that, I use Safari on iOS, but probably the biggest reason I don't use Chrome is because of the battery issue they caused for iPhones years ago. I know that that was fixed and its not an issue anymore, but maybe just out of habit I don't even consider it.

 

[purbeast0]

It's funny that you say that, I use Safari on iOS, but probably the biggest reason I don't use Chrome is because of the battery issue they caused for iPhones years ago. I know that that was fixed and its not an issue anymore, but maybe just out of habit I don't even consider it.

Well to be fair I'm talking about PC browsers not mobile. Browsing on phones in general feels handicapped no matter what browser you use.

 

[Kaido]

Reminds me of the one time Apple automatically downloaded a U2 album to everyone's iPhone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8

The digital release made the record available to over 500 million iTunes customers, for what Apple CEO Tim Cook marketed as "the largest album release of all time".

Word on the street is that U2 was paid $100 million by Apple for the privilege of distributing it to iTunes users for free.

 

[Skunk-Works]

have you .. seen, the new FF UI ?? it's so ugly i genuinely cannot any longer use it, and i only use it for 1 website.

No.