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The joke is that Mr. Robot is a hackerman
i don't know who that is, i boycotted the show because of their shitty advertisement practices
Mr Robot is genuinely one of the best TV shows of all time. Right up there with The Sopranos in my opinion.
No its not
well so is kung fury and kenny starfighter and i bet you haven't seen those
nope!
It's the actor Rami Malek, he plays the main character in Mr. Robot, and he's a hacker. The show revolves around that. The show has a dark tone, so the joke is having him as hackerman.
The show is good, I highly recommend it.
What did they do? I've never heard anything about this but I love the show.
they had a whole series of ads disguised as actual malware and ads for other things. they partnered with amazon to add capabilities to alexa without disclosing it to users, and they partnered with mozilla to push out firefox extensions through a back-channel making people think they'd been infected.
More bummed that firefox went along with it. That was when i stopped trusting them
from what i understood it wasn't that they went along as much as it was one guy with access bypassing the trust chains for the sake of marketing. ...which is even more reason to not trust them, obviously.
I am a bit confused. How can a tv-show push out firefox extensions?
firefox has this thing called surveys, which can install and run in-browser extensions. it's meant for a/b testing, and very tightly controlled as to not blow the trust of the users. basically the entire corp needs to sign off on a survey.
...but then the mr robot showrunners knew some c-level at mozilla and he pushed their code out without telling anyone. he bypassed all the security routines. and the extension had no mr robot branding on it, just some spyware name from the show, meaning that everyone suddenly had an extra extension named something like "spyglass" and moz support couldn't answer why because they weren't told.
What shitty advertisment practices did it had? I wasn't around when it aired but I finished the show recently and Its great.
YOU WERE BORN AFTER 2017???? WHAT.
nah nah, bad wording right - my english is bad too lol-- I meant I wasn't around as in , in the internet much - used to just watch stupid youtube videos.