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What's so bad about reminding people to "Make sure you trust it before installing"?
by laksdjfkasljdf 6y ago
What's so bad about reminding people to "Make sure you trust it before installing"?
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoThe part where there is only one party who can make the scary warning go away and doing so requires paying them.
- chrisweekly 6y agoto be fair, that one party is trying to account for a pretty diverse set of constraints. I'm not in the "they can do no wrong" camp, but it's pretty easy to beat up on nearly any company or entity involved w software (name one and I'll list a handful of gripes). much harder to mostly get it right, as I think mozilla does.
- Spivak 6y agoHow would you want the system structured? You’re paying for Mozilla to vouch for your add-on and say that it’s safe. I mean you could try to do a web of trust kinda thing but you would still end up paying someone. I get where you’re coming from that they could just not have the scary warning but the fact that it’s hosted on Mozilla’s site without a warning already lends a lot of legitimacy to what should be seen as “some random person’s add on.”
- Animats 6y agoMozilla used to have volunteer add-on reviewers, which meant slow turnaround, but worked OK.
- laksdjfkasljdf 6y agoyou ignored my argument that the warning is valid, not scary.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoIt's scary independent of whether it's valid. And that's the problem. It's like putting a sign in front of a retail store that says "make sure you trust the proprietor before patronizing this store" -- it's not saying anything that isn't true, but it's also going to be a direct cause of fewer people patronizing the store, even if the proprietor is trustworthy. If the sign then only comes down by paying money to the party who put up the sign, well, now it's a racket.