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> claiming in effect that the malware they silently injected into people's browsers

It's not malware - please stop calling it that.

It does some arguable unwanted things with text and is rather underperformant in doing so. a It is "off by default" except for some users reporting it as not (and except for nightly?), which is once again pegged as some vaporous bug that we will likely see no followup on. It is unfortunately like much modern software in that vein.

Not quite malware, but very undesirable.

Can you give a reasonable definition of malware that doesn’t include this plugin?

"software which is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain authorized access to a computer system."

Not malware for me. Definitely confidence shaking bloatware and adware though.

Disrupting webpages was specifically what that thing was designed to achieve, right?

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