Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser
Previously:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15921134" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15921134</a><p>This is a link to the GitHub issue:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gregglind&#x2F;addon-wr&#x2F;issues&#x2F;36" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gregglind&#x2F;addon-wr&#x2F;issues&#x2F;36</a><p>There are several scary things about this:<p>- Unknown Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users without their permission<p>- Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users <i>without their knowledge</i><p>- Mozilla developers themselves <i>don&#x27;t realise the consequences of doing this</i><p>- Experiments are not explicitly enabled by users<p>- Opening the addons window <i>reverts configuration changes which disable experiments</i><p>- The only way to properly disable this requires fairly arcane knowledge Firefox preferences (lockpref(), which I&#x27;d never heard of until today)