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Uhm, Mozilla does a code review of every extension or update to an extension before it gets published on AMO, so it should hardly be possible for a malicious th

• Animats 10y ago
  There's an outfit called WIPS which buys up abandoned Firefox add-ons and puts adware and spyware in them.[1] BlockSite [2] is an example. This was approved by Mozilla AMO.[3] [1] http://www.ghacks.net/2013/03/12/mozilla-needs-a-new-audit-process-in-regards-to-add-on-ownership-changes/ http://www.ghacks.net/2013/03/12/mozilla-needs-a-new-audit-p... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocksite/reviews/?page=3 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocksite/rev... [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903799 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903799