1917845 - (soft-blocking) Introduce a new soft-blocking backend for add-ons

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Blocklist Implementation, task, P1)

Description

[William Durand [:willdurand]]

Similar to what we've done a few years ago (Bug 1620621), we'd like to (re-)introduce a new soft blocking mechanism that is backed by a bloom filter, etc. This bug tracks the backend work to do so. Here is a list of things we need to pay attention to (from the PRD):

• When an add-on version is soft-blocked by Mozilla, it should be disabled in both the Firefox desktop and mobile versions
• Provide the ability for a user to re-enable the soft-blocked version in about:addons
• Prevent new installation of soft-blocked versions with an error explaining why it cannot be installed
• Allow the user to disable or re-enable blocking capabilities in Firefox
• A soft-blocked add–on version should automatically update to a newer, approved and not blocked, add-on version if the user has auto-updates enabled
• If an add-on somehow ends up in both the soft-block and hard-block lists, the hard-block should take precedent

Comment 1

[Luca Greco [:rpl] [:luca] [:lgreco]]

Attachment: Bug 1917845 - Add soft-blocking support to ExtensionBlocklistMLBF.

Comment 2

[Luca Greco [:rpl] [:luca] [:lgreco]]

Attachment: Bug 1917845 - Block and show an install error on new soft-blocked addons versions installs.

Depends on D222023

Comment 3

[Luca Greco [:rpl] [:luca] [:lgreco]]

Attachment: WIP: Bug 1917845 - Update period_file_updates.sh to download softblocks-addons-mlbf.bin attachment (if the related record has been found). r?leplatrem!

Comment 4

[Phabricator Automation]

Comment on attachment 9428053 [details]
WIP: Bug 1917845 - Update period_file_updates.sh to download softblocks-addons-mlbf.bin attachment (if the related record has been found). r?leplatrem!

Revision D224096 was moved to bug 1922308. Setting attachment 9428053 [details] to obsolete.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/feb94881b5eb
Add soft-blocking support to ExtensionBlocklistMLBF. r=robwu,willdurand
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/4f4abfee2548
Block and show an install error on new soft-blocked addons versions installs. r=willdurand,fluent-reviewers,bolsson

Comment 6

[Atila Butkovits]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/feb94881b5eb
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4f4abfee2548