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[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-gla] | [https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-gla] | ||
[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ ss/]</ref>, while being disabled by default many users where confused and worried<ref>Firefox's users worried about the looking glass extension https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/</ref> to discover a unknown extension installed in their browser with a cryptic description "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS." which was later expended later to include references to Mozilla's collaboration.<ref> | [https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ ss/]</ref>, while being disabled by default many users where confused and worried<ref>Firefox's users worried about the looking glass extension https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/</ref> to discover a unknown extension installed in their browser with a cryptic description "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS." which was later expended later to include references to Mozilla's collaboration.<ref>Locking glass extension description changed https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c</ref> | ||
The extension when activated execute code on all websites visited by the user, searching for all words matching a list, every words matched were wrap into HTML span tags<ref>looking glass extension injecting HTML https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js#L27</ref>, tooltips were injected to be display when the user over these words, CSS code was injected to make the words appears upside down and the tooltips work<ref>Looking glass extension injecting CSS https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/background.js#L78</ref> | The extension when activated execute code on all websites visited by the user, searching for all words matching a list, every words matched were wrap into HTML span tags<ref>looking glass extension injecting HTML https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js#L27</ref>, tooltips were injected to be display when the user over these words, CSS code was injected to make the words appears upside down and the tooltips work.<ref>Looking glass extension injecting CSS https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/background.js#L78</ref> Also three specific website did have their header changed to have a value "x-1057" injected. | ||
While the extension could in rare occasion break some website with the HTML and CSS injection, it did not do anything malicious or dangerous, the extension was not collecting any personal information at all which Mozilla qualified a mistake in their response addressing the issue.<ref name=":1" /> | While the extension could in rare occasion break some website with the HTML and CSS injection, it did not do anything malicious or dangerous, the extension was not collecting any personal information at all which Mozilla qualified a mistake in their response addressing the issue.<ref name=":1" /> | ||