Add-on stores are disappointing across the board. I struggled to find the official Firefox “turn any URL into a sidebar” extension the other day, and Google isn’t much better (their PiP extension won’t come up if you search “PiP” or even “picture in”).
Considering Mozilla purchased and then cannibalized FakeSpot, you’d figure they would have the technology for identifying fake or sketchy reviews.
Yeah, in what OP screenshotted, they’re just showing off any extensions, not specifically particularly good ones. Obviously, fraudulent or malicious extensions are not supposed to be in the add-ons store to begin with, though.
They do have a separate quality gate for extensions that are genuinely recommended to users.
I don’t know if I’d say promote. It’s likely there because of possibly fake reviews giving it 5 stars.
I reported it though, not sure about malware but it’s clearly trying to copy an existing extension.
Add-on stores are disappointing across the board. I struggled to find the official Firefox “turn any URL into a sidebar” extension the other day, and Google isn’t much better (their PiP extension won’t come up if you search “PiP” or even “picture in”).
Considering Mozilla purchased and then cannibalized FakeSpot, you’d figure they would have the technology for identifying fake or sketchy reviews.
Yeah, in what OP screenshotted, they’re just showing off any extensions, not specifically particularly good ones. Obviously, fraudulent or malicious extensions are not supposed to be in the add-ons store to begin with, though.
They do have a separate quality gate for extensions that are genuinely recommended to users.
Thank you.