Closed Bug 356277 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Category abuse by "Torrent Search"

Categories

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Administration, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: tv, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

This fits none of the Bookmarks, Message Reading, News Reading, or Privacy and Security categories, and so it's obviously category spamming.  (Noticed when browsing bookmark add-ons via the new bundled link in Firefox 2.)

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
The extra categories should be removed, and the author notified that this is a policy violation.
The description states:
* Message Reading : E-Mail Notifier (optional) you can check multiple POP3, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo accounts for new mail. It displays an icon in the toolbar and notifies you whenever new mail is waiting. It also optionally to play a WAV file.

* Privacy and Security : Security Button (optional) includes cookie cleaner, history cleaner, and cache cleaner.

* News Reading : Get RSS Feeds With New Torrents Links From:

Are these not actually included in the toolbar?
Component: Policy → Add-ons
News Reading: A tool that happens to use RSS formatted data for *non-article* content is NOT fundamentally a news tool.


Message Reading: A biff-like notifier is not fundamentally a message tool, but this is arguably more of a grey area.


Privacy and Security: I take great reservation in applying the "privacy" word to any add-on that transmits usage data to a central database, regardless of what boilerplate "cleaner tools" come with the add-on.  The extension description declares the usage data collection outright.


I have no problem with this and similar extensions, but claiming that everything is an all-in-one makes add-on browsing by category frankly useless.
There aren't clear definitions of what can be included in a specific category posted anywhere, and we don't have the resources to police every add-on because someone doesn't like its implementation of an email notifier or because they don't fit the "Privacy" part of the "Privacy and Security" category. Personally, I hate these toolbars and think they should be banned from the site, but right now they are currently allowed on AMO, and should be entitled to the same privileges as other add-ons on AMO.

In Remora (AMO v3), as mentioned in bug 337773, there is a limit of 5 categories which will make authors be selective about what they pick. But until then, if an add-on is related to a category, I don't think we should decide what categories it _actually_ fits in and remove it from the others.
QA Contact: policy → add-ons
See comments for bug 356278 related to this one.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: Add-ons → Administration
QA Contact: add-ons → administration
Product: addons.mozilla.org → addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
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