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…control, economy, robot), sends an extra header to red-wheelbarrow.com that changes what you see. https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/master/addon/backgr...

comment by Dylan16807 · 2026-09-02 · in Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

…hit the fan. It's really hard for someone as inexperienced as me to tell what was actually run! https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/7d4e422bf573f675b... I believe it did technically run enough code to decide whether or not it was…

comment by j_s · 2018-01-17 · in Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

…The addon does nothing unless enabled via about:config and even then, it does not spy on you. 1 - https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr

comment by AsyncAwait · 2018-01-17 · in Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

…potentially display ads on ALL web pages. Hover text injected into headline on Washington Post #39: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/issues/39 Have you read the source code? background.js: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/master/…

comment by DonHopkins · 2017-12-20 · in Update: Looking Glass Add-On

…installed version. If you look into the repo history you can see what it was doing before: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/21ff53d2d5baab591d2...

comment by rpns · 2017-12-19 · in Update: Looking Glass Add-On

…trying to hide the fact that your data WAS collected -- by a 3rd party, which is perhaps worse. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr

comment by 2g67vupsoknn · 2017-12-19 · in Update: Looking Glass Add-On

…many people will enable it, to see what it does. And here's a bug report about something it does: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/issues/39

comment by DonHopkins · 2017-12-19 · in Update: Looking Glass Add-On

…as I can tell, that's not the point of this extension. [1] Fixed Firefox spelling and URL master: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/fdd61682e5b8ef778... [2] Not AR: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15936727 [3] Alternate…

comment by DonHopkins · 2017-12-18 · in Update: Looking Glass Add-On

…enabled was a small piece of code[1] that would enable the full addon when a pref was flipped. [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/master/addon/bootst...

comment by Manishearth · 2017-12-18 · in Update: Looking Glass Add-On

>Add-on was also closed source. What made you think it was closed source? The source for the add-on: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr

comment by jotux · 2017-12-18 · in Update: Looking Glass Add-On

https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/compare/master...philipw...

comment by philipwhiuk · 2017-12-17 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

…was not activated on installation because the check for the extensions.pug.lookingglass on line 22 https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/master/addon/bootst... can easily be gone in the next version of the extension. Not getting paid…

comment by quesnel · 2017-12-17 · in Firefox is on a slippery slope

…APIs, so I'd just bet on confusion. This is the only code that runs when the add-on is enabled: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/59659431fd2a75c33ac... Lines 22 and 39 determine if the inner WebExtension starts up.

comment by callahad · 2017-12-17 · in Firefox is on a slippery slope

…gets initialized, and that's all it does. The bootstrapped add-on is literally just this one file: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/59659431fd2a75c33ac... The outer shell is on by default. The embedded webextension is only…

comment by callahad · 2017-12-17 · in Firefox is on a slippery slope

…it's doesn't initialize itself unless a specific about:config value is also manually flipped: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/59659431fd2a75c33ac... And, for good measure, here's an official quote confirming that we're pulling the…

comment by callahad · 2017-12-16 · in Firefox is on a slippery slope

…flag. No headers, no word inversions, etc. If you'd like to verify my claims, the source lives at https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr , and initialization is controlled by addon/bootstrap.js. This doesn't excuse our actions, but I hope it…

comment by callahad · 2017-12-16 · in Firefox is on a slippery slope

…locked. The code itself comes from a random github repo, not affiliated with mozilla/firefox. ( https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/ ) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424977 people here were asking why normal process wasn't…

comment by siimtalvik · 2017-12-16 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

…including "fuck") in a span with some css animations and a tooltip that links to their web page. https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/commit/da464ac8f1c3b08... But in terms of memory usage, CPU and battery consumption, it's not that…

comment by DonHopkins · 2017-12-16 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

…user has manually gone into about:config and flipped the `extensions.pug.lookingglass` preference: https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/59659431fd2a75c33...

comment by callahad · 2017-12-16 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

…under active development. @gregglind re-add 'fuck' to the word list gregglind committed 3 days ago https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/commit/da464ac8f1c3b08...

comment by DonHopkins · 2017-12-15 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

The source is at https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/ Its startup is controlled by the addon/bootstrap.js file. Per line 22, it's completely inert unless the user manually toggles `extensions.pug.lookingglass` in about:config:…

comment by callahad · 2017-12-15 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

…it just starts up once at browser launch, checks that preference, and shuts itself down. ( https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/59659431fd2a75c33... ) If you're able to consistently reproduce the issue, please let me know.

comment by callahad · 2017-12-15 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

…So, no "Mr Robot marketing department", as some commenters here have been speculating. [1]: https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/graphs/contributors

comment by Ajedi32 · 2017-12-15 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

The source lives at https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/

comment by callahad · 2017-12-15 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

…Edit: Also, the contributors list on the plugin's GitHub repo lists exclusively Mozilla employees: https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/graphs/contributors

comment by Ajedi32 · 2017-12-15 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

…people to go to about:config and change it? Is there video footage suggesting that in the TV show? https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/104-rename-less-v...

comment by lozenge · 2017-12-15 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

…only starts up if the config option "extensions.pug.lookingglass" is set to "true" though: https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b0894... (It defaults to "false.")

comment by ryukafalz · 2017-12-15 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

…the add-on does nothing until the user opts-in on studies. It adds some css to a list of words: https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b0894...

comment by y0ghur7_xxx · 2017-12-15 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

Previously: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921134 This is a link to the GitHub issue: * https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/issues/36 There are several scary things about this: - Unknown Mozilla developers can distribute addons…

comment by pgl · 2017-12-15 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

…based on them. The other thing it's doing is to send an extra header to three specific sites: https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b0894... . I suppose the words and the domain are a reference to the Mr. Robot series. The…

comment by y0ghur7_xxx · 2017-12-15 · in Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser