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> they were paid by an advertising firm to secretly install a plugin for a TV show

I thought they weren't paid, and I know for sure that the plugin didn't load the code unless you set a special thing in about:config.

By the standards of easter eggs it was fine.

> When someone raised a bugzilla bug

I didn't hear about this part, I'd like to see your source. Though I don't know if that really worries me?

And I have no idea how it, or Pocket, is supposed to have any connection to privacy.



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