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Mozilla sneaked a browser plugin that promotes Mr. Robot into Firefox—and managed to piss off a bunch of its privacy-conscious users in the process.
The extension, called Looking Glass, is intended to promote an augmented reality game to "further your immersion into the Mr. Robot universe," according to Mozilla. It was automatically added to Firefox users' browsers this week with no explanation except the cryptic message, "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS," prompting users to worry on Reddit that they'd been hit with spyware.
"I have no idea what it is or where it came from. I freaked out a bit and uninstalled it immediately," one user wrote on Reddit.
Without an explanation included with the extension, users were left digging around in the code for Looking Glass to find answers. Looking Glass was updated for some users today with a description that explains the connection to Mr. Robot and lets users know that the extension won't activate without explicit opt-in.
Mr. Robot is a TV series about hackers airing on USA Network.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-slipped-a-mr-robot-promo-plugin-into-firefox-1821332254
(Score: 1) by dwilson on Tuesday December 19 2017, @12:16AM (2 children)
I'm also on a Gentoo system. I upgraded to GCC 6.4.0 from 5.whateveritwas when it was marked stable, and I use(d) the same overlay for Pale Moon.
Compiled fine, but segfaults on startup, roughly 7 times out of 10.
Like I said, your mileage may vary. I'm glad it works for you, and sad it doesn't for me. What more do you want?
- D
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Tuesday December 19 2017, @08:04PM (1 child)
Point taken. I shouldn't have implied you were somehow wrong. Really does suck that that's happening. As I said for me this is x86. Also note that I've overridden the default behavior of the new 17.0 profile so as to not use pie for gcc 6.4 (which is how it defaulted in the 13.0 profile). I suppose that could be a factor.
(Score: 1) by dwilson on Sunday December 31 2017, @09:01PM
That is probably exactly the reason. I'm on an AMD64 system, and using a hardened profile as well. It's quite possible that GCC's pie stuff changed a bit between 5.4 and 6.4.
If chromium ever irks me enough, I may give that solution a try.
- D