[2g67vupsoknn]

> Even when turned on no user data was collected or shared.

This is disingenuous at best.

The extension (when enabled) injects an extra HTTP header into your browser's requests to 3 specific sites[1], (at least) one of which appears to be operated by NBC Universal.

Are we really supposed to believe that _all_ of the servers handling these "special" requests were set up without any kind of logging enabled? That NBC Universal wasn't tracking how many times each page was loaded? And from which IP addresses? And when?

Mozilla needs to clarify what they meant by "user data" and "collected" here. Seems like they're 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

[rpns]

It required turning on via an about:config preference, the code on GitHub seems to have changed since then for the separately 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...

[2g67vupsoknn]

Thanks for the additional information.

In any case, the claim that "no user data was collected or shared" is suspect.

Users who enabled the extension and visited NBC Universal's site (and others) were sending extra HTTP header data to the server, data that identified them as a Firefox user, of a specific version, who had a particular extension installed -- that's how the "engagement" worked.

Do you think the server(s) that handled these types of "special" requests were configured to specifically _not_ log the incoming traffic or extra headers?

Do you think that NBC Universal would spend the resources to build an elaborate[1] ARG focused on digital "engagement" with fans, form a relationship with Mozilla to promote the show and ARG to Firefox users, but also specifically _not_ collect data about those users?

It seems unlikely.

[1] https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Mr._Robot_AR...

[Vinnl]

I wonder how many people who were under the same impression can admit they were wrong, and of those, how many are able to tone down their outrage to the level warranted by the communication issue.

Outrage is really hard to dial back, even in the face of new information - I know it is for me. I guess that's an interesting corollary for many of the events we see happening in these polarised times.