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rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 17:23:03 UTC 
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To conclude, I think they made a mistake, indeed. And no, this must not happen with a company of that size and one of the largest browser vendors. And you do not have to forgive them for that. It was a mistake (likely, of the marketing dep.).
I don't want to compare that situation to other browsers, but at least you have the choice to disable Firefox Studies from the beginning; after it happened, Mozilla reacted and, what may be the most urgent point for many: It did not collect user data. (So that whole thing was NOT a !privacy problem.)
They regret it and we can hope they'll do better in the future. And, no, you don't have to uninstall your browser, just because of that. You likely were never near that add-on installation, and even if, the add-on would not have collected any data, so it was not as bad as some may sound it like…
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However, some facts easily get lost when people complain about that. First, ONLY US users were affected. This does not necessarily make it better or worse, but it shows how people are overreacted when they disable Firefox Studies to prevent that add-on from getting installed, if they are located in Germany or so.
Secondly, the add-on DID NOT collect user data. And the distribution process has been stopped "[w]ithin hours". The FAQ at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass now explicitly says, you have to "opt-in", i.e. install an add-on, to activate it. Yet again, this does not make the initial problem better, but it shows Mozilla cares for that and reacts to user feedback.
Finally, however, the reason to do the initial act, was NOT money. No, it just was not. "This was not a paid promotion"… Of course, they did not do it without a return service (@whoismrrobot promoted Firefox on Twitter), but I believe them, when they say, the did it because of the show itself.
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rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 17:21:07 UTC
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So I think this may have been a funny/geeky idea of the marketing dep.
Unfortunately, it is not. Because when you participate in these Studies, you accept some A/B tests or similar feature tests to improve the browser. What you certainly do not want is advertisement.
And this is advertisement. As said, I'd really enjoy it, but I can understand other people don't. I'd also not like to have ads for other things in my browser…
It's also bad from a security perspective, of course. No one wants to see a strange add-on (with deliberately strange texts) in your browser, when you open it.
So, yes, that went pretty bad. And they had alternatives: Just use the snippets at about:newtab e.g. On the other hand this would not have been so fun as a real "immersive" ARG.
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rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 17:20:02 UTC
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BTW, with some (intended) delay my point on #LookingGlass / #Mozilla:.
First: Hey, yes, they fu**ed-up!
But: I can understand why…
Because, personally, I'd really liked such a thing. Hey, yes, I like #MrRobot and it promotes the same values as Mozilla. And an #ARG can be funny, including such a "intentionally creepy" text in your add-ons and so on. It's really a geeky thing when you get hidden signs for a TV show, you like, in your browser or so. As Mozilla puts it, it "was intended to be fun".
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All quotes from here (also good article for reference): https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-backpedals-after-mr-robot-firefox-misstep/
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CY (cy@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 10:34:58 UTC 
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German Police has new armored vehicles called "SurvivorR". Now with "undercover modus".
Would you have guessed that this is a police vehicle if they hadn't labeled it? 😂
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rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2017 21:45:08 UTC
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@thomas Works in my case (except when dragging into subfolders sometimes). Are you sure your mouse is okay and does not accidentally release the "click" in the middle? :) -
rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2017 13:17:04 UTC
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@thomas Did you try https://www.draw.io/? -
rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2017 10:04:04 UTC
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Visualize your #GitHub profile: https://github-profile-summary.com/ -
rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2017 09:54:20 UTC
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@kzimmermann2 Which program did you use? -
rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 21:43:57 UTC
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@timleary @kzimmermann Sure, and that is usually what you want to do. Have a collective fingerprint to stay as anonymous as possible.
When you want to be someone special, you should not use Tor… 😉 -
rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 21:02:53 UTC
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@timleary @kzimmermann LOL, or – instead of this complicated setup – just use Firefox as usual and – if you want – click on some checkboxes. Woho… that was difficult. ;-)
And BTW, you should use Tor only with the Tor Browser. Also using Tor for everyday browsing is usually not so good… -
rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 20:58:52 UTC
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@kzimmermann Okay "and measures the results of those interventions"… of course the results need to be submitted bad. It's arguably still completely different to web tracking or so where ad companies analyze your behavior or so…
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rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 20:52:16 UTC
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@kzimmermann @digital likely Mozilla would not even want shields testing in TBB, as it is just a different product, so not a good test. -
rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 20:50:04 UTC
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@kzimmermann Where do they say something about tracking there? The shields thing is just about addons for testing… -
TUXEDO Computers (tuxedocomputers@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2017 22:10:14 UTC 
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Es gibt eine neue Episode Pepper & Carrot von @davidrevoy!
(Zum ersten Mal von uns mit gesponsert. 😉)
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article433/episode-24-the-unity-tree #freecomic #CreativeCommons -
rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 22:49:24 UTC
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Huh, #Twitter?
"Our goal with Twitter Kit is to make it as easy as possible to work with the Twitter API, and to display Tweets in your apps."
https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2017/twitter-kit-sdk-now-open-source.html
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rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 22:21:26 UTC
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@qbi "1x Tor-Benutzung gratis" oder wie? :D -
rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 22:20:34 UTC
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Wenn #KeePassXC keine LiberaPay-Spenden akzeptieren will, dann muss man sie eben motivieren: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/956#issuecomment-351847870
(indem man dank der netten Funktion von LiberaPay bereits ohne Account spendet) -
rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 22:09:22 UTC
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@qbi Weihnachten???🤔 -
rugk -> ⚠️ Follow me at https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk (rugk@gnusocial.de)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 19:49:22 UTC
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@benediktg Hey, da gibt es ja sogar eine Beschreibung dazu. Dachte erst, wer benötigt sowas, aber die Begründung darin hat mich dann doch überzeugt:
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