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> What value is the "Firefox Store" actually offering then?

That anyone dumber than such a reviewer cannot sneak malicious extensions in.

Which, sadly, is probably a non-trivial number of submissions.


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akira250110/01/2024

> That anyone dumber than such a reviewer cannot sneak malicious extensions in.

Although people smarter than such a reviewer are free to? What kind of standard is that?

> Which, sadly, is probably a non-trivial number of submissions.

Then they're not, as an organization, actually capable of doing what they're promising here. There are more ways to get this wrong than to get it right, and borrowing the Google strategy of just not caring about your end users seems completely inappropriate for a non-profit like Mozilla.

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