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I am also concerned about the accountability. It's been some time -- 48 hours or so, and not even a brief statement from management?

This is like PR 101 to me. The most shocking thing so far is their silence -- Mozilla is not a new organization!!

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Here is the closest I've seen to a statement: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass. I don't think the explanation that "The Mr. Robot series centers around the theme of online privacy and security" is what the users were looking for...

So ironic. "Hey the show's about privacy, WE'RE about privacy! Let's invade everybody's privacy to talk about privacy!"

Not uninstalling or anything but now I'm keeping an eye on my about:preferences

Well, I am uninstalling and switching to Iridium right now and it's not JUST because of this Mr Robot thing. I wasn't happy with the direction of Firefox for a while but waited for Quantum to see if things would change. The technology improved, but everything else got worse. So it's time for me to say 'bye, bye' to a browser I've used for more than a decade.

I also think it was a silly thing to do, but it is not the case that the additional code violated anyone’s privacy.

There’s no need to be hyperbolic.

But they brought into their "experience" to become one with the mr robot brand in a unique and intuitive way which lines up perfectly with the Mozilla manifesto!

It's the weekend. Execs don't work on weekends.

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