Closed Bug 1270175 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Block auto-plugin-checker and YouTube to MP3 Button for privacy violations

Categories

(Toolkit :: Blocklist Policy Requests, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Blocklist Policy Requests
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: jorgev, Assigned: jorgev)

Details

These two add-ons were reported to us for having privacy violations. Specifically, they report every visited URL to a third party (for monetization) without disclosing it to their users.

IDs: auto-plugin-checker@jetpack, flvto@hotger.com
Blocked:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/i1210
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/i1211
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
As for auto-plugin-checker, it does install with 'Allow anonymous statistics' enabled, and indeed I remember it having been introduced in an update without any heads-up, but perhaps it would be enough to ask the author for disabling it by default? The 'Options' entry within the add-on is quite explicit about it being done for money.
Flags: needinfo?(jorge)
I forgot to mention that here. The authors were notified weeks ago and there was no response. You can continue using the add-on if you want, by enabling it in the Add-ons Manager.
Flags: needinfo?(jorge)
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