I am *not best pleased* with my employer's failure to understand the concept of informed consent here. This thread covers a lot of it, but I have a few things to add.https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/941713931655172096 …
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I've seen comparisons to Apple and U2, but that doesn't quite line up: a U2 album isn't forcibly given control over your entire online life, and (maybe more importantly) it's very open about being, in fact, a U2 album. No code names or riddles or secrecy there.
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Specifically, there's a WebExtension with permissions equivalent in power to a UXSS — which by itself would be bad enough under the circumstances — and there's also a legacy XPCOM piece that can do anything the browser can.
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Contrast that with EME DRM plugins: not downloaded until and unless the user opts in, and heavily sandboxed. Mozilla might trust the CDM vendor, but the user is not required to share that trust. And it's made about as transparent as it can be given that it's DRM.
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Internal communication on this was basically nonexistent. Randos on Reddit found out what was going on before I did — *from* aforementioned randos, after gossip led me there — and it seems some of my coworkers didn't find out until *days* later.
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Jed Davis 🏳️🌈 Retweeted Yehuda Katz 🥨
As for external communication: We used to consider the Corporation as serving the Project, not owning it, but that's been steadily eroding for at least the past few years.https://twitter.com/wycats/status/941729936464859136 …
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Yehuda Katz 🥨Verified account @wycatsAs a non-Mozilla-employee Mozilla contributor, It's rather frustrating that these comments can exist at all. Things like the "Studies" infrastructure should be managed by a community governance structure, not Mozilla Corp corporate hierarchy. pic.twitter.com/Rj59WeQKZT3 replies 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
(I guess we kind of did uphold one of the classic Mozilla ideals here, accidentally and in a monkey's-paw kind of way, when employees had no more info about what we'd shipped than anyone else on the Net.)
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