Comment by mark-r

9 years ago

I don't think that makes it better. Knowing that there's a way to get an addon installed invisibly is going to be more justification for paranoia.

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dahart  9 years ago

There almost certainly is not a way to invisibly install add-ons, unless you are part of Mozilla, and, you know, making Firefox. If paranoia is your thing, it might be worth considering that Mozilla can do anything it wants inside Firefox core, all of it is "invisible" to you.

  • kuschku  9 years ago

    And this is the point where even the most Mozilla-supporting users move away. For me, this is it, I’m going to Chromium.

    Fuck this shit, in the past months we had CliqZ https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785 ), and we had Mozilla say that, if we don’t trust Google, we shouldn’t use Firefox.

    Fuck this.

    • programd  9 years ago

      Regarding telemetry, take a look at the settings in about:config. There are several toolkit.telemetry.Ping settings which are set to true by default. In the spirit of charity I'm going to assume that those phone home pings - on startup, shutdown, update - are not enabled unless telemetry is enabled. But I have not checked...

    • bigbugbag  9 years ago

      Alternatively you can give waterfox[1] a try.

      Features

          Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
    Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
    Removed Pocket
    Removed Telemetry
    Removed data collection
    Removed startup profiling
    Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
    Allow running of unsigned extensions
    Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
    Addition of Duplicate Tab option
    Locale selector in about:preferences > General

      [1]: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

    • Danihan  9 years ago

      Great points, thanks for compiling these..

      I was using firefox because I don't trust google. ;(

  • bo1024  9 years ago

    Yes and a big part of this entire issue is users deciding whether we can trust Mozilla with that power or not.

    • Sylos  9 years ago

      And he's saying that this occurence should have no effect on this decision, not in any rational mind.

bwat49  9 years ago

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