Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by nextgens on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:52AM
(#18587564)
They make it clear that it's not the listing of the addon on AMO that makes it subject to their policies (and local laws)... it's the signing itself.
So yeah... I can provide an unsigned copy of my add-ons to users... but unsigned add-ons are by design awkward to side-load :/
> - provide an XPI (that will only benefit the few since the side-loading process is made awkwarder at every point release) ?
You could get your add-on signed as an "unlisted"[0] add-on and upload it to GitHub as a "release" (for which you can upload binary files[1]). This would make the add-on less easily discoverable (than it had been), but at least all Firefox users could install it without much of a hassle. OTOH if the add-on becomes popular again, take-down requests might be sent to you or GitHub.
[0] By unlisted I mean not publicly distributed via AMO; there's no restriction on distribution via other channels. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Dis...
[1] https://help.github.com/articles/distributing-large-binaries...