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Ruffle's official e-mail inbox is chock full of these. The sums of money being offered for a free and Free extension are so high that I can only assume the buye
by kmeisthax 3y ago
Ruffle's official e-mail inbox is chock full of these. The sums of money being offered for a free and Free extension are so high that I can only assume the buyers are looking to load it up with whatever malware won't immediately get it banned by Google or Mozilla[0].
My personal opinion is that you shouldn't be allowed to transfer an extension between owners without prior approval and vetting of the new ownership structure. This should deliberately be harder than just setting up a new extension, because new listings won't have reviews or trust associated with it. I'm saying this as the person who occasionally gets caught on the business end of some of these policies[1] and knows how much of a pain it is to navigate bureaucracy. The underground extension sales marketplace is incredibly sketchy and plays fast and loose with user trust.
[0] Joke's on them, our AMO listing is already flagged for machine-generated code (because we use Rust/WASM), so our extension submissions only get approved if Mozilla is able to reproduce our builds byte-for-byte.
[1] https://ruffle.rs/blog/2023/04/23/mozilla-extension-postmortem.html https://ruffle.rs/blog/2023/04/23/mozilla-extension-postmort...