Looking Glass

[calliopes_pen]

If anyone happened to see that they suddenly had a new web extension while they were using Firefox, called Looking Glass—which you quite likely never installed in the first place—here is the reason why. It isn’t malware. Mozilla just felt like putting it into the browser for anyone that had their preferences checked for “allow Firefox to install and run studies.” I just looked and I had it installed and the box checked. I have uninstalled the extension and unchecked the box.

It’s some kind of tie-in with a show named Mr. Robot. I had no interest in watching before, even when I had cable. I most certainly have no inclination to give it a view now.

Oh, and be certain to follow the instructions for what to do in about:config, which are mentioned in the comment by someone named 42. If it goes missing, app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled should be set to false; extensions.shield-recipe-client.enabled should also be set to false.

Looking Glass only appeared for me today.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

*checks* nada

thanks for the heads up :)

[redbird]

Thanks. I hadn't even noticed that. (I did explicitly opt in for studies, and am going to leave that checked for now.)

[conuly]

For serious? Ugh, ugh, ugh.