Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
by idle_zealot on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:37AM
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Out of curiosity, under what circumstances would you consider distributing an extension bundle to be leaking its code? Unless I'm misunderstanding, isn't this the same file you'll be distributing to your users? At first bluff it seems similar to worrying about leaking your website's frontend (I've got news for you...).
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Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
by tomp on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:27AM
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It could be a private extension developed by a company internally, and only distributed to internal users.
Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
by earenndil on Friday November 30, 2018 @04:33PM
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If it's for an entire company, then it's easy enough to compile your own copy of firefox that accepts extensions signed with the company signature rather than mozilla.
Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
by funklebunkle on Saturday December 01, 2018 @01:47PM
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It's really not. Small businesses exist.
Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
by earenndil on Saturday December 01, 2018 @04:11PM
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If you have the resources to develop an internal company addon, you have the resources to build a firefox that accepts a different signature.
Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
by jamietanna on Saturday December 01, 2018 @04:36PM
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Respectfully disagree - having to rebuild each time patches come out, on multiple OSes and versions, which have a patch to allow unsigned extensions is a massively more time expensive than developing a browser extension, and requires extra knowledge on the behalf of the persons responsible