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I understand where the dev is coming from but I think he still should have just replied to Mozilla. This is clearly a mistake on their part. The dev just seems pissed off and decided to not reply out of emotion. His call I guess but I don't agree with that approach.
I agree that they should have replied, and that replying probably would have even fixed the mistake, but I also can't find it in me to fault them in this situation. Getting those emails would have been both frustrating and insulting, and one of their messages on the linked GitHub page goes into the various stresses the situation puts them through.
I don't agree that there's enough evidence here to decide Mozilla's actions were hostile/malicious - maybe if they were given a chance to fix things and still didn't, but everyone makes mistakes. Incompetent, sure, malicious, not enough evidence.
Yea I don't think Mozilla did it maliciously. I think either some dumbass analyst fucked up, or they ran it through AI, and the AI is dogshit and fucked up. Those are my guesses.
Who knows? The file that got incorrectly marked as collecting or transmitting data was named "googlesyndication_adsbygoogle.js". I'm sure that's a very reasonable guess for what a file with that name would do... in most add-ons. But like, obviously not in this one. My best guess is the reviewers have some type of tool that's intended to help them find issues, it flagged the referenced files, and the reviewer either couldn't or didn't properly verify the files were actually issues.
Yea I think it's an honest mistake. I don't see this as "hostile" to Gorhill. I have no idea why he thinks this. It's really weird.
AI seems like a possibility. I find it slightly easier to believe that someone in management was stupid enough to replace human reviewers with bots than that someone in a position to decide what gets accepted had never heard of UBO and didn't realize that it's an important one.
Either way they really ought to explain themselves.
Well Gorhill would need to respond.....which he said he won't do so rip.
Whether or not Mozilla chooses to issue some kind of meaningful statement about what happened beyond the boilerplate "oops, it was an error" is not up to Gorhill.
That's Gorhill for you, very pissed off, very emotional, not very emotionally bright.
That's like every developer of these tools lol.
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