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12-17-2017, 11:28 AM
Firefox users lose trust in Mozilla after a 'Mr. Robot' promo went horribly wrong
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Protip for Mozilla and the USA Network: In the future when you're plotting a tie-in for a show about vigilante hackers, maybe don't actually compromise people's privacy.
Some Firefox users were none too thrilled to discover that the web browser had installed an add-on called "Looking Glass" without permission. Bearing a description that read simply, in all-caps, "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS," people were understandably suspicious.
SEE ALSO: 'Mr. Robot' fans, today is your lucky day (http://mashable.com/2017/12/13/mr-robot-season-4/)
(The all-caps utterance, it should be noted, is a quote from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/16/mr-robot-looking-glass-mozilla-firefox-backlash/)
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Protip for Mozilla and the USA Network: In the future when you're plotting a tie-in for a show about vigilante hackers, maybe don't actually compromise people's privacy.
Some Firefox users were none too thrilled to discover that the web browser had installed an add-on called "Looking Glass" without permission. Bearing a description that read simply, in all-caps, "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS," people were understandably suspicious.
SEE ALSO: 'Mr. Robot' fans, today is your lucky day (http://mashable.com/2017/12/13/mr-robot-season-4/)
(The all-caps utterance, it should be noted, is a quote from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/16/mr-robot-looking-glass-mozilla-firefox-backlash/)
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