“Actors who are asking me to add some tracking code are mostly interested in reselling users’ data,” Anashkin said. “Actors who want to purchase it outright will stuff it with malware depending on their level of greed: hijacking affiliate links, tampering with search results, showing popups with shady websites, etc.”
Anashkin’s experience appears to be fairly common. Developers have discussed these solicitations in online forums and several have written blog posts about selling extensions or partnership offers.
Do anyone knows if in Firefox is the same situation, or if they take some actions when a extension changes hands?
Looks like Firefox add-ons can be transferred with “[n]o interaction with Mozilla representatives”:
https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/add-on-ownership/
You do have to include your source code though if you use any kind of code obfuscation or minimization though:
https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/source-code-submission/
And now, please make the mental leap to overly-large Lemmy instances…
The extension in question btw is Zoom+ for people that don’t want to click
Hover Zoom+
Damn I’m using that. I guess the article means he hasn’t sold out yet though.
Reverse switcheroo… this article boosts downloads because people think he has unique integrity in the field, then he sells for double
The alternate universe where Anashkin doesn’t fall for the dark side
