Jiffy Reader disabled by Mozilla - What happened? (lemmy.world)

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Just received the notificaiton Jiffy Reader was disabled for a TOS breach by Mozilla, but what actually happened? I couldn't find news on it.

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[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

maybe perhaps related to this: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/browser-extensions-turn-nearly-1-million-browsers-into-website-scraping-bots/

the affected addons list only mentions jiffyreader for chrome (or some addon masquerading as actual jiffy reader). Could be Mozilla found the addon doing something it shouldn't?

edit: in jiffy reader's github: https://github.com/ansh/jiffyreader.com/issues/342

[-] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That GitHub discussion seems to confirm it. The developers shutting down their extension immediately afterwards too just reeks of suspicious activity.

The version number for the extension in my browser (1.8.8) doesn't match the latest release that's visible on this otherwise public repository (1.8.0)

So presumably at some point "someone" "somewhere" modified or added some files to the source code of this extension out of public view... and then "somehow" got a hold of this dev account password or whatever which was subsequently used to surreptitiously push it to the chrome webstore...

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