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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by shaki-dora on Sunday December 02, 2018 @09:16AM (#18582377)
Would you make the same point for an extension that allows users to easily participate in DDOS attacks?

Edit: the link, for the willfully dense, is that some protocol specification does not imply its users’ acceptance of any and all (ab)uses possible. It’s completely different only in that you like one but not the other.

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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by JoshuaAshton on Sunday December 02, 2018 @09:19AM (#18582388)
That's completely and utterly unrelated to what the guy said. He is talking about user-agents and the way you interpret the data you receive from a http(s) request. You're talking about DDOS attacks. There is no logical link here.
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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by giornogiovanna on Sunday December 02, 2018 @09:48AM (#18582497)
Uh... yes? It's not very relevant, but I guess if someone was making some kind of hacktivist extension that did something like that, I wouldn't just take it down from the marketplace.
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